Into the White (eBook)

The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image

Christopher P. Heuer (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2019
Zone Books (Verlag)
978-1-942130-29-1 (ISBN)

Infos

European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet between 1500 and 1700 one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art: the Arctic. Icy, unpopulated, visually and temporally "e;abstract,"e; the far North - a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination - offered more than new stuff to be mapped, plundered, or even seen. Neither a continent, an ocean, nor a meteorological circumstance, the Arctic forced visitors from England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, to grapple with what we would now call a "e;nonsite,"e; spurring dozens of previously unknown works, objects, and texts - and this all in an intellectual and political milieu crackling with Reformation debates over art's very legitimacy.Into the White uses five case studies to probe how the early modern Arctic (as site, myth, and ecology) affected contemporary debates of perception and matter, of representation, discovery, and the time of the earth - long before the nineteenth century romanticized the polar landscape. In the far North, this book contends, the Renaissance exotic became something far stranger than the marvelous or the curious, something darkly material and unmasterable, something beyond the idea of image itself.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 72 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Schlagworte: Albrecht • aleksandr solzhenitsyn • Ambiguity • Androphagi • Anthropocene • Art History • Arthur Barlowe • Baffin Island • Barbarism (linguistics) • Beyond Civilization • Bruges • Bureau of American Ethnology • Cannibalism • Carbon Footprint • Cartography • Caspar David Friedrich • Christopher Columbus • Colonialism • contemporary Art • cornelis • Cornelis Ketel • Cosmographiae Introductio • Cotton Mather • Counter-Reformation • deforestation • Disenchantment • Dissolution of the Monasteries • Dutch Revolt • early modern period • El Lissitzky • engraving • european folklore • Exoticism • exploration • Extreme North • Frobisher (Doctor Who) • Gargantua and Pantagruel • Gengenbach • German Forest • Gerrit de Veer • Geuzen • GULAG • Gustav I of Sweden • Harvard University • Hendrik Goltzius • Iceland • Iconoclasm • Iconography • Idolatry • Illustration • Inuit • Inventio Fortunata • Jan Huyghen van Linschoten • Jean de Dinteville • Johannes Ruysch • Johannes Trithemius • John Carter Brown Library • John Foxe • Kalicho • Kazimir Malevich • Laskaris Kananos • Literature • Little Ice Age • Lucas de Heere • Mare Liberum • margaret of parma • marooning • Martin Frobisher • Modernity • Monstrous birth • Muscovy Company • narrative • Northeast Passage • Northwest Passage • Nuremberg • Nuuk • Olafur Eliasson • Olaus Magnus • Paganism • Pope Paul III • pytheas • Religion • rhetoric • Richard Eden • Richard Hakluyt • Rijksmuseum • Romanticism • Secularism • Smithsonian Institution • Statue • Technology • The Philosopher • The Various • true history • warfare • wild man • Wildness • William Camden • woodcut • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-942130-29-5 / 1942130295
• ISBN-13: 978-1-942130-29-1 / 9781942130291