Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875

by Russell A. Potter

Book Overview

When every land seems already explored, and space travel has declined in scope and prestige, the northern exploits of our Victorian forebears offers a pleasantly distant mirror from which to regard our own time. The Arctic regions have been the subject of a long-lasting visual fascination, one which has from the outset crossed boundaries between fine art and mass entertainment, "high" and "low" cultures, and even national identity. In the mid-nineteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295986808
• ISBN13: 9780295986807
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 10.0"