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38 produkter
Circumpolar Landscape
Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930
Inbunden, 2024
794 kr
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A Circumpolar Landscape demonstrates that Canadian and Scandinavian landscape painting reaches far beyond national identity and a preoccupation with Eurocentrism. This study brings together the work of Emily Carr, the Canadian Group of Seven, Anna Boberg, and Gustaf Fjaestad among others, with each …
Nunavik
Inuit-Controlled Education in Arctic Quebec
Inbunden, 2002
518 kr
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In the pages of this book, you will read of the efforts of many to fearlessly audit the state of education in Nunavik. To diligently seek improvement of an already good system. To fix what is not necessarily broken so that those who come after us will have it even better than we did. The various …
Writing Geographical Exploration
Thomas James and the Northwest Passage, 1631-33
Inbunden, 2002
759 kr
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Writing Geographical Exploration summarizes the various factors that influence the writing and interpretation of exploration narratives, demonstrating the limitations of the assumption that there is a direct relationship between what the explorer saw and what the text describes.Davies offers a …
As Long As This Land Shall Last
A History of Treaty 8 and Treaty 11, 1870-1939
Häftad, 2004
329 kr
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As Long As This Land Shall Last is a thorough document of Treaty 8, 1899-1900, and Treaty 11, 1921-1941; between the Canadian Government and the Indigenous Peoples of Northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories. These treaties promised that the Indigenous Peoples who inhabited these places could …
Lands That Hold One Spellbound
A Story of East Greenland
Häftad, 2008
461 kr
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Lands that Hold One Spellbound is an informal history of East Greenland. Spencer Apollonio has written the only known overview of the history of this region, summarizing indigenous settlements over four millennia, and describing European explorations from the Norse period to recent years. East …
Arctic Scientist, Gulag Survivor
The Biography of Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev, 1905-1991
Av A. M. Ermolaev, V. D. Dibner m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
550 kr
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One of the most prominent Soviet Arctic scientists of the 1920s and 1930s, Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev was a geologist, physicist, and oceanographer. After working in the Arctic for some thirteen years, he was arrested by the NKVD, convicted on a trumped-up charge of "sabotage," and sent to the …
Reindeer Botanist
Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977
Av Wendy Dathan
Häftad, 2012
611 kr
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The Reindeer Botanist is the first biography of one of Canada's most remarkable botanists. Alf Erling Porsild (1901-1977) grew up on the Arctic Station in West Greenland and later served as curator of botany at the National Museum of Canada. He collected thousands of specimens, greatly enlarging …
Fast-Changing Arctic
Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World
Häftad, 2013
475 kr
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In this timely new book, international scholars and military professionals come together to explore the strategic consequences of the thawing of the Arctic. Their analyses of efforts by governments and defence, security, and coast guard organizations to address these challenges make timely and …
Shipwreck at Cape Flora
The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer
Häftad, 2013
485 kr
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Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies. Yet, the Royal Geographic Society's Sir Clements R. Markham …
Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North
Terrestrial Sovereignty, 1870-1939
Av Gordon W. Smith, P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Häftad, 2014
519 kr
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Gordon W. Smith, PhD, dedicated much of his life to researching Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic. His 1952 dissertation from Columbia University on ""The Historical and Legal Background of Canada's Arctic Claims"" remains a foundational work on the topic, as does his 1966 chapter ""Sovereignty in …
Baffin Island
Field Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-67
Av Jack D. Ives
Häftad, 2016
449 kr
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A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the "golden age" of federal research. In the 1960s, scientists from the Geographical Branch of Canada's Department of …
Polaris
The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73
Häftad, 2016
535 kr
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Emil Bessels was chief scientist and medical officer on George Francis Hall's ill-fated American North Pole Expedition of 1871-73, on board the ship Polaris. Bessels' book, translated from the German in its entirety for the first time, is one of only two first-hand accounts of the voyage, and it is …
Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder Print
His Master Etching
Av Amy Golahny
Inbunden, 2021
644 kr
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Always recognised as a master print from the moment of its appearance around 1649, the Hundred Guilder Print is one of Rembrandt's most compositionally complex and visually beautiful works.This book gives a full overview of the fascinating story surrounding this print, from its genesis and market …
Vermeer and the Art of Love
Inbunden, 2022
508 kr
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Vermeer and the Art of Love is about the emotions evoked in those elegant interiors in which a young woman may be writing a letter to her absent beloved or playing a virginal in the presence of an admirer. But it is also about the love we sense in the painter’s attentiveness to every detail within …
Albrecht Dürer's Afterlife
Inbunden, 2024
519 kr
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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) enjoyed European-wide fame during his lifetime. Dürer was not only a brilliant painter, but also a pioneering printmaker, experimental draughtsman, book publisher, first German art theoretician and amateur poet. His art was avidly collected, repeatedly copied in diverse …
Woodland Imagery in Northern Art, c. 1500 - 1800
Poetry and Ecology
Av Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti
Inbunden, 2022
644 kr
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Woodland Imagery in Northern Art reconnects us with the woodland scenery that abounds in Western painting, from Albrecht Dürer’s intense studies of verdant trees, to the works of many other Northern European artists who captured 'the truth of vegetation' in their work. These incidents of remarkable …
Danish-British Consort Portraiture, c.1600-1900
Av Sara Ayres
Inbunden, 2023
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770 kr
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This is the first book to address the long art history of dynastic marriage exchange between Denmark and Britain between 1600 and 1900. It explores an intersection of three themes trending in early modern studies: portraiture, gender and the court as a centre of cultural exchange. The book …
Picturing the Artist's Studio, from Delacroix to Picasso
Inbunden, 2024
644 kr
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This richly diverse study examines the evolving image and contested status of the artist in late nineteenth-century France through the lens of the artist’s studio, which became a central theme in art and literature, stretching from Balzac to Proust and from Corot to Picasso. The studio was a hybrid …
Hendrick ter Brugghen
Utrecht's Subtle Master
Inbunden, 2026
645 kr
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Hendrick ter Brugghen’s work forms a key chapter in the history of 17th-century Dutch art. A significant follower of Caravaggio, Ter Brugghen was also important in the development of both Rembrandt and Vermeer. Yet until now there has been no accessible survey of his work. This important book …
Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great
Inbunden, 2023
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689 kr
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Catherine the Great’s audacious power grab in 1762 marked a watershed in imperial Russian history. During a momentous 34-year reign, her rapacious vision and intellectual curiosity led to vast territorial expansion, cultural advancement, and civic, educational and social reform. In this pioneering …
Godefridus Schalcken
A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune
Inbunden, 2023
816 kr
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Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit ofFame and Fortune is the first book in English dedicated to the entireartistic output of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Godefridus Schalcken(1643–1706). It examines the artist’s paintings and career trajectory againstthe …
Europe Views the World, 1500-1700
Av Larry Silver
Inbunden, 2022
645 kr
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Europe Views the World examines the wide diversity of images that Europeans produced to represent the wide variety of peoples and places around the globe during and after the so-called 'Age of Exploration'. Beginning with the medieval imagery of Europe’s imagined alien races, and with an emphasis …
Fidelia Bridges
Nature into Art
Inbunden, 2023
518 kr
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Fidelia Bridges (1834-1923) painted pictures that critics praised for their ability to exude the fragrance of field flowers and glow with the plumage of birds. Raised in Salem and long residing in Connecticut, she maintained a studio in New York City, where she exhibited her art for over forty …
Painted Interiors of the British Baroque
Art and the Senses
Inbunden, 2026
553 kr
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Painted interiors, narratives spilling over walls and ceilings, can unlock the sensory worlds of the British Isles in the 17th century. Lydia Hamlett explores how these paintings were designed to appeal to our emotions through the five senses, and reframes the British Baroque interior as an active, …
Henry Holiday
His Stained-Glass Windows for Gilded-Age New York
Inbunden, 2023
939 kr
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Henry Holiday (1839–1927) was a polymath who counted figures such as Lewis Carroll, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Emmeline Pankhurst as his friends. Most significantly, he was unquestionably one of the greatest stained-glass artists of the Victorian-Edwardian period, yet his considerable …
Mist and Fog in British and European Painting
Fuseli, Friedrich, Turner, Monet and their Contemporaries
Inbunden, 2023
748 kr
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The metaphorical meanings that have accrued to mist and fog, encouraged by their indeterminate and transitory nature, and the emotions to which they give rise, are variously evident in the work of major artists and their contemporaries.This book is the first to address the themes of mist and fog in …
Susie M. Barstow
Redefining the Hudson River School
Av Nancy Siegel
Inbunden, 2023
485 kr
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Why do we not know more of Susie Barstow? A prolific artist, Susie M. Barstow (1836-1923) was committed to expressing the majesty she found in the national landscape. She captured on canvas and paper the larger American landscape experience as it evolved across the nineteenth century. A notable …
