Into the White — Heuer '94 Bowdoin Alumni Michael Kolster

Michael Kolster

The featured paintings

The book accompanies an exhibition Rufus Porter’s Curious World Art and Invention in America

parents working online around the clock—everyday life is undergoing a massive transformation

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Into the White — Heuer '94 Bowdoin Alumni Michael KolsterBy Christopher Heuer, Class of 1994 European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet between 1500 and 1700 one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art: the Arctic. Icy, unpopulated, visually and temporally abstract, the far North a different kind of terra