Illustrating the future
In the early 1900s, Sweden looked to its north, to “Lappland” as its “land of the future” – an optimistic, utopian vision that tied Sweden’s emergence as a nation-state both to the north’s untapped resources as well as to its open, pristine landscape as a place of symbolic regenerative potentiality...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:79834ad8e47f446f8b092c8f19adb6cc 2024-02-11T10:05:38+01:00 Illustrating the future JoAnn Conrad 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.48202/25047 https://doaj.org/article/79834ad8e47f446f8b092c8f19adb6cc DA EN NO SV dan eng nor swe Lärdomshistoriska samfundet https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25047 https://doaj.org/toc/0076-1648 https://doaj.org/toc/2004-4852 doi:10.48202/25047 0076-1648 2004-4852 https://doaj.org/article/79834ad8e47f446f8b092c8f19adb6cc Lychnos (2024) History of scholarship and learning. The humanities AZ20-999 article 2024 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.48202/25047 2024-01-14T01:38:32Z In the early 1900s, Sweden looked to its north, to “Lappland” as its “land of the future” – an optimistic, utopian vision that tied Sweden’s emergence as a nation-state both to the north’s untapped resources as well as to its open, pristine landscape as a place of symbolic regenerative potentiality – a Nature in which Swedes could re-create themselves. At the same time, the Swedish publishing industry was emerging as a social force, and with it the proliferation of mass-produced images. Photographs, illustrations, engravings, and facsimiles, circulating with scant reference to an original, were powerful political and commercial agents in creating competing mythologies of space and place – one a “found”, natural paradise, one an invented utopia, ripe for development. This article examines the discursive formation of Lapland as it was transformed into such a landscape of desire through the mass production and circulation of visual images – in particular photographs – that were continuously recontextualized, recirculated, remediated, and consumed. Article in Journal/Newspaper Lappland Lapland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Lappland ENVELOPE(18.067,18.067,65.900,65.900) Lychnos: Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria |
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In the early 1900s, Sweden looked to its north, to “Lappland” as its “land of the future” – an optimistic, utopian vision that tied Sweden’s emergence as a nation-state both to the north’s untapped resources as well as to its open, pristine landscape as a place of symbolic regenerative potentiality – a Nature in which Swedes could re-create themselves. At the same time, the Swedish publishing industry was emerging as a social force, and with it the proliferation of mass-produced images. Photographs, illustrations, engravings, and facsimiles, circulating with scant reference to an original, were powerful political and commercial agents in creating competing mythologies of space and place – one a “found”, natural paradise, one an invented utopia, ripe for development. This article examines the discursive formation of Lapland as it was transformed into such a landscape of desire through the mass production and circulation of visual images – in particular photographs – that were continuously recontextualized, recirculated, remediated, and consumed. |
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