Sir, Come Navigate
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DETAILS
Artist:
Kimberly Precht
Document Type: Altered Book
Category: With Video
Date: 2006
Dimensions: 30 x 30 cm
Call Number: N 7433.4 P74 A6 S57 2006
Video:
Direct Video Link
Notes:
As is revealed in the explanatory document that accompanies Sir, Come Navigate, this book was originally created for the Early Modern Travel Writing class at the University of Alberta in Fall 2005. In this document we also learn that the titular play on the word “circumnavigate” is due to the fact that the artist is not only interested in circumnavigation, but in “the wider and less literal theme of (male) navigation.” This interest becomes obvious upon approaching the book itself, which takes the form of a grand ship, whose belly is built out of a world map. The map unfolds into intricate, carefully constructed pages of tales of male explorers during the Elizabethan era. Throughout these narratives the artist weaves together ideas of expansion, exploration, and travel writing with issues of gender, race, and empire. The complexity of the construction of the book echoes the fascinatingly nuanced nature of the artist’s analysis of the politics of circumnavigation.
Text record edited by Silvia Russell at 2010-04-13 10:41:34
Document Type: Altered Book
Category: With Video
Date: 2006
Dimensions: 30 x 30 cm
Call Number: N 7433.4 P74 A6 S57 2006
Video:
Direct Video Link
Notes:
As is revealed in the explanatory document that accompanies Sir, Come Navigate, this book was originally created for the Early Modern Travel Writing class at the University of Alberta in Fall 2005. In this document we also learn that the titular play on the word “circumnavigate” is due to the fact that the artist is not only interested in circumnavigation, but in “the wider and less literal theme of (male) navigation.” This interest becomes obvious upon approaching the book itself, which takes the form of a grand ship, whose belly is built out of a world map. The map unfolds into intricate, carefully constructed pages of tales of male explorers during the Elizabethan era. Throughout these narratives the artist weaves together ideas of expansion, exploration, and travel writing with issues of gender, race, and empire. The complexity of the construction of the book echoes the fascinatingly nuanced nature of the artist’s analysis of the politics of circumnavigation.
Text record edited by Silvia Russell at 2010-04-13 10:41:34
