A picturesque journey
A Picturesque Journey is a ‘road-movie’, showing the journey from Tornio in Northern Finland to the mountain Avasaksa on the arctic circle, where the French scientist Maupertuis in 1736 famously took his measurments to determine the degree of flattening of the Earth towards the poles (which was pred...
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ftwestminres:oai:westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk:933w7 2023-05-15T15:01:33+02:00 A picturesque journey Orlow, U. 2004 https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/933w7/a-picturesque-journey unknown Orlow, U. 2004. A picturesque journey. Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland 06 Feb - 21 Mar 2004 exhibition 2004 ftwestminres 2023-03-26T20:56:37Z A Picturesque Journey is a ‘road-movie’, showing the journey from Tornio in Northern Finland to the mountain Avasaksa on the arctic circle, where the French scientist Maupertuis in 1736 famously took his measurments to determine the degree of flattening of the Earth towards the poles (which was predicted by Newton). The journey, which took place on the day of the winter solstice culminates at noon in the same view from Avasaksa which is depicted in A. F. Skjöldebrand’s engraving from 1799, made on the first ‘touristic’ journey to the Nord-Cap on the longest day of the year, the summer solstice. Further development of the ideas around time and the seasons has led to another, related work Midday/Midnight (66° 33') which has been exhibited in the exhibition ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ at the ICA, London. Other/Unknown Material Arctic Northern Finland University of Westminster: WestminsterResearch Arctic Tornio ENVELOPE(24.147,24.147,65.848,65.848) |
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A Picturesque Journey is a ‘road-movie’, showing the journey from Tornio in Northern Finland to the mountain Avasaksa on the arctic circle, where the French scientist Maupertuis in 1736 famously took his measurments to determine the degree of flattening of the Earth towards the poles (which was predicted by Newton). The journey, which took place on the day of the winter solstice culminates at noon in the same view from Avasaksa which is depicted in A. F. Skjöldebrand’s engraving from 1799, made on the first ‘touristic’ journey to the Nord-Cap on the longest day of the year, the summer solstice. Further development of the ideas around time and the seasons has led to another, related work Midday/Midnight (66° 33') which has been exhibited in the exhibition ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ at the ICA, London. |
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