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The tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs in the work of amateur visual documenters of Antarctica’s Heroic Era
Citation
Millar, P, The tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs in the work of amateur visual documenters of Antarctica's Heroic Era, Polar Record, 53, (3) pp. 245-256. ISSN 0032-2474 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2017 Cambridge University Press
DOI: doi:10.1017/S003224741700002X
Abstract
Visual documenters made a major contribution to the recording of the Heroic Era of Antarctic exploration. By far the best known were the professional photographers, Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley, hired to photograph British and Australasian expeditions. But a great number of images – photographs and artworks – were also produced by amateurs on lesser known European expeditions and a Japanese one. These amateurs were sometimes designated official illustrators, often scientists recording their research. This paper offers a discursive examination of illustrations from the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897–1899), German Deep Sea Expedition (1898–1899), German South Polar Expedition (1901–1903), Swedish South Polar Expedition (1901–1903), French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) and Japanese Antarctic Expedition (1910–1912), assessing their representations of exploration in Antarctica in terms of the tension between emotive/aesthetic and systematic analytic/scientific motifs. Their depictions were influenced by their illustrative skills and their ‘ways of seeing’, produced from their backgrounds and the sponsorship needs of the expedition.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Heroic Era Antarctica, images, discourses |
Research Division: | History, Heritage and Archaeology |
Research Group: | Other history, heritage and archaeology |
Research Field: | Other history, heritage and archaeology not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Other culture and society |
Objective Field: | Other culture and society not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Millar, P (Dr Patricia Millar) |
ID Code: | 115278 |
Year Published: | 2017 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 1 |
Deposited By: | Education |
Deposited On: | 2017-03-14 |
Last Modified: | 2018-12-13 |
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