Research Catalog

Title

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.

Publication

• Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2024]
• ©2024

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Reidy, Brent
• Cronin, Elizabeth, 1978-
• Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell
• Fowler, Ian (Map librarian)
• Golia, Julie
• Horbal, Bogdan, 1965-
• Keister, Jessica
• Kiely, Declan
• Mustard, Maggie
• Scruggs, Dalila
• Triplett, Kyle R.
• Viljoen, Madeleine Claire, 1968-
• Vissers, Joseph J.
• Walz, Emily
• New York Public Library, host institution.

Description

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

Subject

• New York Public Library > Exhibitions
• New York Public Library
• Travel
• Discoveries in geography
• Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration > Exhibitions
• Arctic regions > Description and travel > Exhibitions
• Arctic regions > Pictorial works
• Polar regions
• Arctic Regions

Genre/Form

• Pictorial works.
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

Contemplating the Arctic / Brent Reidy -- Preface / Elizabeth Cronin -- Mercator's conceptions of the Arctic / Ian Fowler -- Déjà vu : the Arctic peoples in the early modern book / Madeleine C. Viljoen -- 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 Expeditions 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 balloon to the Arctic / Joseph J. Vissers -- The new North, the last West : Agnes Deans Cameron's voyage to the Arctic / Jule Golia -- Buying in : magic lantern slides from Robert Peary's Arctic expeditons / Maggie Mustard -- The ephemeral Arctic : Albert Operti's "Arctic Scenes" / 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.

Call Number

JQF 24-30

ISBN

• 9783775748070
• 3775748075

OCLC

1391432950

Title

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.

Publisher

Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2024]

Copyright Date

©2024

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

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

Added Author

Reidy, Brent, writer of foreword.

Cronin, Elizabeth, 1978- editor, author.

Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell, author.

Fowler, Ian (Map librarian), author.

Golia, Julie, author.

Horbal, Bogdan, 1965- author.

Keister, Jessica, author.

Kiely, Declan, author.

Mustard, Maggie, author.

Scruggs, Dalila, author.

Triplett, Kyle R., author.

Viljoen, Madeleine Claire, 1968- author.

Vissers, Joseph J., author.

Walz, Emily, author.

New York Public Library, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 24-30