Parution : Christopher P. Heuer, « Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image », Londres, Zone Books, 2019
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 unexpect...
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Centre d’histoire de l’art de la Renaissance
2019
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| Online Access: | http://char.hypotheses.org/12990 |
| 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 . |
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