The Picturesque Tourist
Author: Orville Luther Holley
Publisher: New-York : J. Disturnell
Published: 1844
Total Pages: 388
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Author: Orville Luther Holley
Publisher: New-York : J. Disturnell
Published: 1844
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Hepple Hall
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Krista A. Thompson
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007-03-15
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 0822388561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImages of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque “tropical” paradises. They hired photographers and artists to create carefully crafted representations, which then circulated internationally via postcards and illustrated guides and lectures. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, including many in color, An Eye for the Tropics is a nuanced evaluation of the aesthetics of the “tropicalizing images” and their effects on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Thompson describes how representations created to project an image to the outside world altered everyday life on the islands. Hoteliers imported tropical plants to make the islands look more like the images. Many prominent tourist-oriented spaces, including hotels and famous beaches, became off-limits to the islands’ black populations, who were encouraged to act like the disciplined, loyal colonial subjects depicted in the pictures. Analyzing the work of specific photographers and artists who created tropical representations of Jamaica and the Bahamas between the 1880s and the 1930s, Thompson shows how their images differ from the English picturesque landscape tradition. Turning to the present, she examines how tropicalizing images are deconstructed in works by contemporary artists—including Christopher Cozier, David Bailey, and Irénée Shaw—at the same time that they remain a staple of postcolonial governments’ vigorous efforts to attract tourists.
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Finola O'Kane
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300185386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThat Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliché, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted, and manipulated during the long 18th century. This book positions Ireland at the core of the picturesque's development and argues for a far greater degree of Irish influence on the course of European landscape theory and design. Positioned off-axis from the greater force-field, and off-shore from mainland Europe and America, where better to cultivate the oblique perspective? This book charts the creation of picturesque Ireland, while exploring in detail the role and reach of landscape painting in the planning, publishing, landscaping and design of Ireland's historic landscapes, towns, and tourist routes. Thus it is also a history of the physical shaping of Ireland as a tourist destination, one of the earliest, most calculated, and most successful in the world. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Author: Tourist
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 704
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 900
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Published: 1852
Total Pages: 710
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adam BLACK (Publisher, and BLACK (Charles) Publisher.)
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 820
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