Nomadic, ecstatic, magic: Arctic primitivism in Scandinavia around 1900
| Autor: | Hanna Eglinger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cultural Studies
Literature History 060102 archaeology Sociology and Political Science Incantation Poetry business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Cartoonist Rationality 06 humanities and the arts Magic (paranormal) Indigenous 030207 dermatology & venereal diseases 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arctic Aesthetics Anthropology media_common.cataloged_instance 0601 history and archaeology business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Acta Borealia. 33:189-214 |
| ISSN: | 1503-111X 0800-3831 |
| Popis: | The aim of this article is to delineate the term “Arctic primitivism” in an aesthetic context and, by means of three examples from Scandinavian artists whose works were also the subject of ethnological discussions, to give an illuminating impression of Scandinavian Arctic primitivism around 1900. First some conceptual considerations about the combination of Arctic and primitivistic discourse will be presented. Then three examples for the “primal conditions” of an aesthetic conception of Arctic primitivism will be discussed: the nomadic, the ecstatic, and the magical. They serve as counter principles to modern categories such as spatial fixedness, linear chronology, and rational thought. Emilie Demant Hatt’s visual art stands for the nomadic principle; the Swedish cartoonist Ossian Elgstrom deals with ecstatic states; and the poems of Danish “eskimologist” William Thalbitzer show his fascination with indigenous magical incantations as an alternative to rational thought. All examples illustrate the ... |
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