Multiple meanings within visual documentation of the Swedish South Polar Expedition (1901–1903) : the tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs
This paper offers a discursive examination of visual documentation from Otto Nordenskjöld’s Swedish South Polar Expedition (1901–1903). Despite encountering major problems, the expedition conducted a comprehensive scientific programme and much visual documentation was included in the many books publ...
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ftunivtasmania:oai:eprints.utas.edu.au:28057 2023-05-15T13:31:53+02:00 Multiple meanings within visual documentation of the Swedish South Polar Expedition (1901–1903) : the tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs Millar, P 2018 https://eprints.utas.edu.au/28057/ unknown Routledge Millar, P 2018 , 'Multiple meanings within visual documentation of the Swedish South Polar Expedition (1901–1903) : the tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs' , The Polar Journal, vol. 8, no. 1 , pp. 44-67 , doi:10.1080/2154896X.2018.1468631 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2018.1468631>. Polar exploration Swedish expedition expeditionary photography visual representations Nordenskjöld Article PeerReviewed 2018 ftunivtasmania https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2018.1468631 2021-09-13T22:18:38Z This paper offers a discursive examination of visual documentation from Otto Nordenskjöld’s Swedish South Polar Expedition (1901–1903). Despite encountering major problems, the expedition conducted a comprehensive scientific programme and much visual documentation was included in the many books published by expedition members. All illustrators sought subjects in line with the scientific nature of the expedition, but systematic analytic/scientific motifs were often juxtaposed with emotive and aesthetic ones. Images contain textual arrangements and discursive practices, producing multi-layered cultural messages in which the creator, subject and viewer each plays a role, and which rely on cultural and historical contexts and on experiential knowledge. The images examined here draw in particular ways on prevailing Heroic Era discourses. Some have a special power to suggest psychological and emotional aspects of the expeditioners. They are a vivid record of their creators’ ways of seeing, and of their ways of resolving the tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs in documenting Antarctic exploration. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic The Polar Journal University of Tasmania: UTas ePrints Antarctic Nordenskjöld ENVELOPE(-60.583,-60.583,-64.667,-64.667) The Polar Journal 8 1 44 67 |
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This paper offers a discursive examination of visual documentation from Otto Nordenskjöld’s Swedish South Polar Expedition (1901–1903). Despite encountering major problems, the expedition conducted a comprehensive scientific programme and much visual documentation was included in the many books published by expedition members. All illustrators sought subjects in line with the scientific nature of the expedition, but systematic analytic/scientific motifs were often juxtaposed with emotive and aesthetic ones. Images contain textual arrangements and discursive practices, producing multi-layered cultural messages in which the creator, subject and viewer each plays a role, and which rely on cultural and historical contexts and on experiential knowledge. The images examined here draw in particular ways on prevailing Heroic Era discourses. Some have a special power to suggest psychological and emotional aspects of the expeditioners. They are a vivid record of their creators’ ways of seeing, and of their ways of resolving the tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs in documenting Antarctic exploration. |
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Multiple meanings within visual documentation of the Swedish South Polar Expedition (1901–1903) : the tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs |
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Multiple meanings within visual documentation of the Swedish South Polar Expedition (1901–1903) : the tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs |
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Multiple meanings within visual documentation of the Swedish South Polar Expedition (1901–1903) : the tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs |
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Multiple meanings within visual documentation of the Swedish South Polar Expedition (1901–1903) : the tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs |
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