Into the white : the Renaissance Arctic, the end of the image /
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Brooklyn, NY : Zone Books New York, 2019. |
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Online Access: | Click here for full text |
Summary: | 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 "abstract," 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 "nonsite," 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. |
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Item Description: | Print version record. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781942130291 1942130295 |