Language: Multiple languages
Published by Aeroplano, 2009
ISBN 10: 8578200225 ISBN 13: 9788578200220
Seller: killarneybooks, Inagh, CLARE, Ireland
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Oversized hardcover, bilingual (Portuguese & English), 187 pages, illustrated throughout with colour photos, pictorial endpapers, NOT ex-library. Shipping weight over 1kg. Minor handling wear only, book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Exhibition catalogue for Intempérie: fenômenos da mudança climática da Antártida held at Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, from January 19 to March 1, 2009. -- This bilingual volume documents an artistic and scientific expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula. It presents a unique collaboration between artists and scientists, exploring the aesthetic dimensions of the Antarctic landscape and the visible phenomena of climate change. The book combines photographic documentation, artistic works, and scientific observations to capture the sublime beauty and fragility of the polar environment. It serves as both an art book and a scientific record, using aesthetic experience as a means to communicate the profound impacts of global warming on one of the world's most remote ecosystems.