Polly Gould

Antarctica, Art and Archive (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350158351
• Artikelnr.: 60571964

Autorenporträt

Polly Gould is an artist who shows with Danielle Arnaud. She a tutor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Acronyms Introduction List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Acronyms Introduction Antarctica through Art and the Archive
Atmosphere through Architecture
Anthropos through Nomadic Subjects
Biography through Zoegraphy
Transposition through Refraction
Art and Antarctica through Writing
The Journey through the Writing Prologue
Notes from the Field
Glass
Archive Chapter One Elsewhere
The Crippetts
A Chapter of Antarctic History
Evolution
Notes and Queries
Hints to Travellers
Avant
Garde
A View from Nowhere
Archive as Field
Analogy
Immediacy
Medium
No More Elsewhere Chapter Two Watercolour
In the Open Air
Notes towards a Lecture on Sketching
The Weather
Climate Control
Horizon
Permanent Colour
Black and White
Colour in Nature
The History of Art
Of Turnerian Topography
Everything Wanders
Watercolours Chapter Three Antarctica through the Archive
Antarctica
Curious Perspective
The Grid and Globe
The Antarctic Manual
Observation Hill
The Southern Journey
X
The South Pole
The Observer and the Observed
Interpretation
Atmosphere
Ekphrasis
Through the Archive Chapter Four The Colour of Water
Understanding of the Colour of Water
Typology
The Study of Geography
Natural History
Pharmakon
Silver Nitrate
Fugitive Colour
Diorama
Climatron
Twenty
First
Century Storm Cloud
Participant Observation
Air Conditioning Chapter Five Where Else
No Where Else
Refractive Index
Please Return Immediately
Similarity
in
Difference
The Hut and the Museum
The View from Somewhere
Rear
Guard
Lantern Lecture
Some Notes on Penguins
But Things Have Turned out Otherwise
Some Fragments of an Antarctic Archive
Hope Epilogue
The Arkive
Ice
Field Notes Manuscripts Primary Bibliography Secondary Bibliography