The awe of the Arctic : a visual history / edited by Elizabeth Cronin ; with a foreword by Brent Reidy and essays by Elizabeth Cronin, Elizabeth C. Denlinger, Ian Fowler, Julie Golia, Bogdan Horbal, Jessica Keister, Declan Kiely, Maggie Mustard, Dalila Scruggs, Kyle R. Triplett, Madeleine C. Viljoen, Joseph J. Vissers, Emily Walz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reidy, Brent, writer of foreword.

Cronin, Elizabeth, 1978- editor, contributor.

Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell, contributor.

Fowler, Ian (Map librarian), contributor.

Golia, Julie, contributor.

Horbal, Bogdan, 1965- contributor.

Keister, Jessica, contributor.

Kiely, Declan, contributor.

Mustard, Maggie, contributor.

Scruggs, Dalila, contributor.

Triplett, Kyle R., contributor.

Viljoen, Madeleine Claire, 1968- contributor.

Vissers, Joseph J., contributor.

Walz, Emily, contributor.

New York Public Library.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--Bibliography--Exhibitions.

Arctic regions.

Arctic regions--Description and travel--Bibliography--Exhibitions.

Arctic regions--Pictorial works.

New York Public Library--Exhibitions.

New York Public Library.

Physical Description:

257 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, facsimiles ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2024]

Contents:

Contemplating the Arctic / Brent Reidy

Preface / Elizabeth Cronin

Mercator's conceptions of the Arctic / Ian Fowler

Déjà vu: the Artic peoples in the early modern book / Madeleine C. Vijoen. Per Freta Hactenus Negata: news from nowhere in the North Georgia Gazette, and Winter Chronicle / Kyle R. Triplett ; A glance at ice in The Arctic Expedition and Frankenstein / Elizabeth C. Denlinger ; "I am not yet frozen to death...": last words from the doomed Franklin expedition / Declan Kiely ; Annotated transcription of Stephen S. Stanley's letter to William Fergusson / Declan Kiely

Feeble and heroic: encountering the fantastical Arctic landscape / Elizabeth Cronin. Frederick George Jackson's Cape Flora panorama: The journey to a first-rate halftone / Jessica Keister ; Above sea and ice: by baloon to the Arctic / Joseph J. Vissers ; The new North, the last waves: Agnes Dean Cameron's voyage to the Arctic / Julie Golia ; Buying in: magic lantern slides from Robert Peary's Arctic expeditions / Maggie Mustard ; The ephemeral Arctic: Albert Operti's "Arctic scnese" / Emily Walz ; Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat: the rebranding of the SS / Cheliuskin Bogdan Horbal

Fragments from the Arctic: contemporary artistic work / Elizabeth Cronin and Maggie Mustard. Terry Adkins's Qikiqtaaluk: a recital for Matthew Henson / Dalila Scruggs.

Notes:

"New York Public Library"

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the New York Public Library, March 15-July 13, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-246) and index.

Local Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at the New York Public Library, New York, March 15 - July 13, 2024.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9783775748070

3775748075

OCLC:

1391432950