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All but blank: Artistic approaches to human Antarctica

Part of: 60th anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2019

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Jean de Pomereu*
Affiliation:
Associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge,Cambridge CB2 1ER, UK
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Author for correspondence: Jean de Pomereu, Emails: jd351@cam.ac.uk, jean@jeandepomereu.com
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Abstract

The visual arts have played an increasingly important role in examining and critiquing past and present human activities in Antarctica as governed by the Antarctic Treaty and its Protocol on Environmental protection. This paper analyses the work of six artists who have contributed to this scrutiny, awakening us to fabrications and helping to enrich Antarctic cultures beyond the scientific and the environmental. It encourages all signatory nations to the Antarctic Treaty System to embrace and empower a more diverse artistic engagement with Antarctica and suggests that artists find new ways to address threats to the Antarctic, whether they come from within and from without.

Keywords

AntarcticaVisual artsPerceptionAntarctic treatyHuman occupation
Type
Research Article
Information
Polar Record , Volume 55 , Issue 5 , September 2019 , pp. 337 - 340
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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