Vernacular Images Of The Svalbard Archipelago, 1596 To 1996
Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1997 Drama has always been part of Svalbard's vernacular or everyday images. Drama was central to the serialized whaling prints produced in the Dutch and English printing shops by the seventeenth and eighteenth century's graphic artists, who th...
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ftunivalaska:oai:scholarworks.alaska.edu:11122/8532 2023-05-15T14:18:02+02:00 Vernacular Images Of The Svalbard Archipelago, 1596 To 1996 Deehr, Tone Benedicte Treider Woodward, Kesler 1997 http://hdl.handle.net/11122/8532 unknown http://hdl.handle.net/11122/8532 Art history Modern history Thesis ma 1997 ftunivalaska 2023-02-23T21:37:04Z Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1997 Drama has always been part of Svalbard's vernacular or everyday images. Drama was central to the serialized whaling prints produced in the Dutch and English printing shops by the seventeenth and eighteenth century's graphic artists, who themselves might not have set foot in the Arctic. These prints soon gained increasing popularity in illiterate Europe. Svalbard's resources, adventure, and exploitation became public knowledge. New names began filling empty spaces on the map prompted by science and exploration. The navigator's and cartographer's coastal sketches were slowly replaced by more elaborate landscape compositions with halftones and perspective. During the nineteenth century, professional artists gained access to the islands, most often hired to record expedition findings. Having proceeded from the particular to the universal, Svalbard's vernacular imagery appears as an emotional awakening to the power of being in an arctic environment that renders an important perspective to our global concerns. Thesis Archipelago Arctic Svalbard Alaska University of Alaska: ScholarWorks@UA Arctic Fairbanks Svalbard Svalbard Archipelago |
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Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1997 Drama has always been part of Svalbard's vernacular or everyday images. Drama was central to the serialized whaling prints produced in the Dutch and English printing shops by the seventeenth and eighteenth century's graphic artists, who themselves might not have set foot in the Arctic. These prints soon gained increasing popularity in illiterate Europe. Svalbard's resources, adventure, and exploitation became public knowledge. New names began filling empty spaces on the map prompted by science and exploration. The navigator's and cartographer's coastal sketches were slowly replaced by more elaborate landscape compositions with halftones and perspective. During the nineteenth century, professional artists gained access to the islands, most often hired to record expedition findings. Having proceeded from the particular to the universal, Svalbard's vernacular imagery appears as an emotional awakening to the power of being in an arctic environment that renders an important perspective to our global concerns. |
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Vernacular Images Of The Svalbard Archipelago, 1596 To 1996 |
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Vernacular Images Of The Svalbard Archipelago, 1596 To 1996 |
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Vernacular Images Of The Svalbard Archipelago, 1596 To 1996 |
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Vernacular Images Of The Svalbard Archipelago, 1596 To 1996 |
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Vernacular Images Of The Svalbard Archipelago, 1596 To 1996 |
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vernacular images of the svalbard archipelago, 1596 to 1996 |
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1997 |
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Arctic Fairbanks Svalbard Svalbard Archipelago |
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Arctic Fairbanks Svalbard Svalbard Archipelago |
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Archipelago Arctic Svalbard Alaska |
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Archipelago Arctic Svalbard Alaska |
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