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Daniela Bleichmar

Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin

~This book would not exist without the magnificent collections and talented staff of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to work closely with both. My thanks above all to Catherine Hess, who embraced the project with enthusiasm from the beginning and contributed so much to the exhibition we...

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Daniela Bleichmar

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This book would not exist without the magnificent collections and talented staff of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to work closely with both. My thanks above all to Catherine Hess, who embraced the project with enthusiasm from the beginning and contributed so much to the exhibition we co-curated. Kevin Salatino was a stalwart supporter throughout and helped at critical moments. Lindsey Hansen handled all matters related to this publication with great aplomb and competence. Lana Johnson makes it all happen, and that’s an understatement. Heartfelt thanks to Michele Ahern, Manuel Flores, Sharon Robinson, John Sullivan, and Devonne Tice; to Ann Blecksmith and the wonderful staff of Special Collections and the Ahmanson Reading Room, in particular Kevin Smith. Jim Folsom, Bill Frank, Alan Jutzi, Dan Lewis, Melissa Lo, and John Trager generously shared their expertise, made suggestions, and provided access to manuscripts, books, and greenhouses.

The Getty Foundation provided the impetus and the support for this project through its important initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. My thanks to them for their commitment to the study of art and its history across the world. This publication also received support from the dean of Dornsife College at the University of Southern California.

Many thanks to the staff members at the lending institutions for all their help with loans, image rights, and publication permissions, especially to those who welcomed us in person to their collections and shared their expertise so graciously: in Madrid, Esther García Guillén, Jesús Muñoz, and Charo Noya at the Real Jardín Botánico; Concepción García Sáiz and Beatriz Robledo Sanz at the Museo de América; and Carolina Martín Albadalejo and Santiago Merino at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales; in Mexico, Salvador Rueda at the Museo Nacional de Historia; Agustían Arteaga at the Museo Nacional de Arte; and Baltazar Brito Guadarrama at the Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia; in the U.S., Lesa Dowd, Nora Gabor, Will Hansen, Elizabeth McKinley, and Alice Schreyer at the Newberry Library; Gabriel Pérez Barreiro at the Cisneros Collection; Christina M. Bleyer and Julianne Gilland at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas Libraries; and Julia Miglets and Marilynn Thoma at the Thoma Foundation; in Italy, Marzia Faietti and Eike Schmidt at the Uffizi, and Fulvio Simoni and Rita de Tata in Bologna; and in the U.K., Rea Alexandratos, Martin Clayton, and Kate Heard.

My heartfelt thanks as well to the terrific editorial team: editor Roger LaBrie; Amy Canonico, Patricia Fidler, Sarah Henry, Raychel Rapazza, and Kate Zanzucchi at Yale University Press; copyeditor Jane Friedman; designer Rita Jules at Miko McGinty Inc.; proofreader June Cuffner; and indexer Kathleen Friello.

Many scholars have assisted in the writing of this book. Ellen Dooley and Randall Meissen were tremendous graduate research assistants. I am very grateful for all their work and many contributions. The students in a graduate seminar I taught on this subject at the Huntington Library—Emily Anderson, Randall Meissen, Avigail Moss, Skyler Reidy, and Jenna Ross—made helpful suggestions and embarked on intellectual voyages of their own. In the early stages of exhibition planning, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Tom Cummins, Ilona Katzew, Peter Mancall, Joanne Pillsbury, Joe Rishel, and Neil Safier provided valuable advice. Joanne has helped this project, and helped me personally, in so many ways over the years. My thanks also to the colleagues who shared their expertise, answered queries, invited me to discuss this project, and made valuable suggestions: Clara Bargellini, Michael Brown, Michael Brownlee, Allison Bigelow, Amy Buono, Christian Fausto, Martha Few, Paula Findlen, Zephyr Frank, Anthony Grafton, Selma Holo, Oliver Hochadel and his colleagues at the Institució Milà i Fontanals (CSIC), Kris Lane, Serge Lemaitre, Valeria Escauriaza López Fadul, Alicia Lubowski-Jahn, Diana Magaloni-Kerpel, Katherine Manthorne, José Ramón Marcaida, Daniel Margócsy, Laura Matthew, Harper Montgomery, Stella Nair, Pepe Pardo, Elena Phipps, Juan Pimentel, Alejandra Rojas, Emma Sallent Del Colombo, Sofía Sanabrais, Stephanie Schrader, John Slater, Claudia Swan, and Nicolás Wey-Gómez. The bibliography is more than a list of sources: it is an itemized thank you note to scholars whose works have taught me so much. Thank you also to my dear colleagues, mentors, and friends, Peter Mancall and Vanessa Schwartz, for everything.

I finished writing this book at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. I thank its director, Margaret Levi, for welcoming me, and its staff for all their assistance, in particular Jason Gonzales and Darin Spelber at the library. Thank you as well to the wonderful group of CASBS 2016–17 fellows.

My family has been with me on this voyage from the start, far away and long ago. They are my world. All my love and gratitude to my parents, Celia Leiberman and Norberto Bleichmar; to my dearest brothers and their families, Guillermo, Katie, Gabriel, and Mateo, and Fernando, Cristina, Ana Sofía, and Julián; and to Robin Lakoff, George Lakoff, and Kathleen Frumkin. Gracias a mis hijas adoradas, Natalia y Paloma, escritoras, artistas, y exploradoras que cada día descubren nuevos mundos. I dedicate this book to my husband, Andy Lakoff, with my deepest love, gratitude, and admiration. Wherever we may voyage, with you, I am home.

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