Artists in Antarctica
Artists in Antarctica

Author: Patrick Shepherd

Publisher:

Published: 2023-11-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781991016270

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What transformation happens when writers, musicians and artists stand in the vast, cold spaces of Antarctica? This book brings together paintings, photographs, texts and musical scores by Aotearoa New Zealand artists who have been to the Ice. It explores the impact of this experience on their art and art process, as well as the physical challenges of working in a harsh and unfamiliar environment.Antarctic science, nature and human history are explored through the creative lens of some of New Zealand' s most acclaimed artists, composers and writers, including Laurence Aberhart, Nigel Brown, Gareth Farr, Dick Frizzell, Anne Noble, Virginia King, Owen Marshall, Grahame Sydney, Ronnie van Hout and Phil Dadson.It also includes a foreword by CEO of Antarctica New Zealand Sarah Williamson and a chapter by Antarctic arts researcher Dr Adele Jackson contextualising Aotearoa New Zealand' s relationship with Antarctica.

South Pole Station
South Pole Station

Author: Ashley Shelby

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2024-08-27

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1452972206

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A New York TimesBook Review Editors’ Choice A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year Hudson Booksellers Book of the Year One of the New York Post’s Best Books of the Summer One of The Millions’s Most Anticipated Books of the Year IndieNext Pick A Time Magazine “What to Read Now” Selection A wry novel set at the edge of the earth about the courage it takes to band together, even as everything around you falls apart Unmoored by a recent family tragedy, Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty and on the verge of ruining her career. So when the opportunity arises to join the National Science Foundation’s Artists & Writers Program in Antarctica, she jumps at the chance—and finds herself in the company of others who are just abnormal enough for Polar life, a group of eccentrics motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own. When they are joined by a fringe scientist who claims climate change is a hoax, the Polies’ already-imbalanced community is rattled, bringing them to the center of a global controversy and threatening the ancient ice chip they call home.

Antarctic Resolution
Antarctic Resolution

Author: Giulia Foscari

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-25

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 9783037786406

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In the era of the Anthropocene, it?s urgent to shift our collective attention southward. Antarctica, a continent that accounts for 10% of Planet Earth and 70% of the world?s fresh water, represents at once the repository of planetary data essential to produce reliable climate change projections, and the biggest threat to all coastal sites.00On the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica, 'Antarctic Resolution' offers a high-resolution image of the hyper-surveilled yet neglected continent and instigates a decisive resolution towards a supra-national governance model. Advocating for true trans-national and cross-disciplinary collaboration, 'Antarctic Resolution' brings together, for the first time in Antarctic bibliography, international experts and practitioners in the fields of science, architecture, engineering, history, political science, law, anthropology, literature, art and technology.00The holistic agenda of Antarctic Resolution, which includes dedicated chapters on the role of science and politics in the continent, culminates in the first ?Declassified Archive of Antarctic Architecture.? Revealing the unique evolution of inhabitation models and architectural typologies in the extreme (from the first Antarctic hut to advanced contemporary structures), the Archive questions the motives that led to an unexpected architectural redundancy on the continent.00Developed by UNLESS, a not-for-profit organization which mobilizes architecture as an agency for territorial investigation, Antarctic Resolution juxtaposes academic content with highly visual information. Alongside archival and contemporary photography, the book is dense with drawings, diagrams and cartographies produced by the global network of the Polar Lab.00Resisting the temptation of imposing a conclusive narrative, the publication structure offers knowledge in the form of fragments ? flashes that shed light in a continent that lies in the dark for six months each year.

Gondwana
Gondwana

Author: Diane Tuft

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781614281993

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After receiving a grant from the National Science Foundation in 2012, art photographer Diane Tuft travelled to Antarctica to study and document the effects of ultraviolet and infrared radiation on the landscape. 'Gondwana: Images of an Ancient Land' chronicles the extraordinary results of that expedition, with over 50 stunning images that capture Antarctica's raw, untouched splendour with colours, textures, and compositions that verge on the surreal. Gondwana presents a living reflection of hundreds of millions of years of Earth's history, a mythical land as it has never been imagined before. You can see more pictures and learn more about this stunning book by visiting the book's dedicated website: http://www.gondwanabook.com/ AUTHOR: Diane Tuft is a New York-based mixed-media artist who has focused primarily on photography since 1998. She earned a degree in mathematics at the University of Connecticut before continuing her studies in art at Pratt Institute in New York. She has always been fascinated by the mystery of what exists beyond the visible; capturing this through her camera--often travelling to the world's most remote places to do so--has been a guiding principle of her work. over 50 illustrations

Antarctica, Art and Archive
Antarctica, Art and Archive

Author: Polly Gould

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-12-10

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1350158348

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Antarctica, that icy wasteland and extreme environment at the ends of the earth, was - at the beginning of the 20th century - the last frontier of Victorian imperialism, a territory subjected to heroic and sometimes desperate exploration. Now, at the start of the 21st century, Antarctica is the vulnerable landscape behind iconic images of climate change. In this genre-crossing narrative Gould takes us on a journey to the South Pole, through art and archive. Through the life and tragic death of Edward Wilson, polar explorer, doctor, scientist and artist, and his watercolours, and through the work of a pioneer of modern anthropology and opponent of scientific racism, Franz Boas, Gould exposes the legacies of colonialism and racial and gendered identities of the time. Antarctica, the White Continent, far from being a blank - and white - canvas, is revealed to be full of colour. Gould argues that the medium matters and that the practices of observation in art, anthropology and science determine how we see and what we know. Stories of exploration and open-air watercolour painting, of weather experiments and ethnographic collecting, of evolution and extinction, are interwoven to raise important questions for our times. Revisiting Antarctica through the archive becomes the urgent endeavour to imagine an inhabitable planetary future.

The Book of Ice
The Book of Ice

Author: DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid

Publisher: Subliminal Kid Inc

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1935613146

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In light of climate change and humanitys increasingly complex and nuanced relationship with the natural world, this book serves as an accessible point of entry into complex ideas. Miller uses Antarctica as a point on entry for contemplating humanitys relationship with the natural world.