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Antarctica, Art and Archive

Af: Polly Gould Engelsk Hardback

Antarctica, Art and Archive

Af: Polly Gould Engelsk Hardback
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Antarctica, that icy wasteland and extreme environment at the ends of the earth, was - at the beginning of the 20th century - the last frontier of Victorian imperialism, a territory subjected to heroic and sometimes desperate exploration. Now, at the start of the 21st century, Antarctica is the vulnerable landscape behind iconic images of climate change. In this genre-crossing narrative Gould takes us on a journey to the South Pole, through art and archive.

Through the life and tragic death of Edward Wilson, polar explorer, doctor, scientist and artist, and his watercolours, and through the work of a pioneer of modern anthropology and opponent of scientific racism, Franz Boas, Gould exposes the legacies of colonialism and racial and gendered identities of the time. Antarctica, the White Continent, far from being a blank - and white - canvas, is revealed to be full of colour. Gould argues that the medium matters and that the practices of observation in art, anthropology and science determine how we see and what we know. Stories of exploration and open-air watercolour painting, of weather experiments and ethnographic collecting, of evolution and extinction, are interwoven to raise important questions for our times. Revisiting Antarctica through the archive becomes the urgent endeavour to imagine an inhabitable planetary future.

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Antarctica, that icy wasteland and extreme environment at the ends of the earth, was - at the beginning of the 20th century - the last frontier of Victorian imperialism, a territory subjected to heroic and sometimes desperate exploration. Now, at the start of the 21st century, Antarctica is the vulnerable landscape behind iconic images of climate change. In this genre-crossing narrative Gould takes us on a journey to the South Pole, through art and archive.

Through the life and tragic death of Edward Wilson, polar explorer, doctor, scientist and artist, and his watercolours, and through the work of a pioneer of modern anthropology and opponent of scientific racism, Franz Boas, Gould exposes the legacies of colonialism and racial and gendered identities of the time. Antarctica, the White Continent, far from being a blank - and white - canvas, is revealed to be full of colour. Gould argues that the medium matters and that the practices of observation in art, anthropology and science determine how we see and what we know. Stories of exploration and open-air watercolour painting, of weather experiments and ethnographic collecting, of evolution and extinction, are interwoven to raise important questions for our times. Revisiting Antarctica through the archive becomes the urgent endeavour to imagine an inhabitable planetary future.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN-13: 9781788311694
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1788311698
Kategori: Antarctica
Udg. Dato: 24 dec 2020
Længde: 30mm
Bredde: 252mm
Højde: 195mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 24 dec 2020
Forfatter(e): Polly Gould
Forfatter(e) Polly Gould

Kategori Antarctica

ISBN-13 9781788311694

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 368

Udgave

Længde 30mm

Bredde 252mm

Højde 195mm

Udg. Dato 24 dec 2020

Oplagsdato 24 dec 2020

Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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