The vivid, dramatic images of distant stars and galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have come to define how we visualize the cosmos. In their immediacy and vibrancy, photographs from the Hubble show what future generations of space travellers might see should they venture beyond our solar system. In Picturing the Cosmos, Elizabeth A. Kessler examines the Hubble's deep space images, highlighting the remarkable resemblance they bear to nineteenth-century paintings and photographs of the American West and their invocation of the visual language of the sublime.
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University of Minnesota Press
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9780816679577
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Elizabeth A. Kessler
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Picturing the Cosmos: Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime