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The Known Unknown : = Mapping Ignorance in the Age of Discovery.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Known Unknown :/
Reminder of title:	Mapping Ignorance in the Age of Discovery.
Author:	Briel, Mariah Carmen.
Description:	1 online resource (60 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 58-01.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International58-01(E).
Subject:	Art history. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780438290648

The Known Unknown : = Mapping Ignorance in the Age of Discovery.
Briel, Mariah Carmen.

The Known Unknown :Mapping Ignorance in the Age of Discovery. - 1 online resource (60 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 58-01.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, Davis, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

This thesis proposes that late sixteenth and seventeenth-century maps of the unknown continent known as Terra Incognita are the visual embodiment of ignorance, creating complex tensions between representations of knowledge and lack of knowledge through their borders, forms, and figures. Theories surrounding the possibility and physical form of the unknown and its inhabitants can be visually traced through Classical and medieval sources, culminating in the maps produced during the Renaissance and Age of Exploration, when the existence of, and visual space devoted to this continent began to shift dramatically. As an example of this phenomenon, my investigation looks closely at the depiction of the Terra Incognita on the 1608 world map of engraver Jodocus Hondius, printed in Amsterdam, which portrays the discrete and detailed borders of the explored and 'known' portions of the globe with an 'unknown' land with discrete borders, scientific data, portraits of explorers, and smaller world maps that delineate explorer's routes. Hondius was well-versed in cartography and the images placed in the frame of the Terra Incognita were a calculated visual construction, made up of portraiture, Classical and medieval thought, scientific advancements, and conjecture, acting as both propaganda for knowledge and as a visual embodiment of ignorance. Using agnotology, or the study of culturally produced ignorance, I will examine the images contained within the Terra Incognita to explore the implications of that ignorance on Hondius, as well as Dutch exploration, and European expansion at large.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780438290648Subjects--Topical Terms:

1180038
Art history.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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