On The Uncompromising Hand: Remembering Spirit Island

Drawing as Imagining Absence: Sometime prior to 1963 a person sat down at a table to draw a map. This person could effectively communicate with lines across a page, possessing the technical skills of rendering exact scale ratios of a three-dimensional space on a sheet of paper. The task of this arti...

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Main Author: Andrea Carlson
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Language:English
Published: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2018-02-01
Series:Open Rivers
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Online Access: https://openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/on-the-uncompromising-hand-remembering-spirit-island/
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spelling doaj.art-fafff5fbe04a4464b6db482899004dd42022-12-22T00:39:45ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingOpen Rivers2471-190X2018-02-01Issue Nine : Winter 2018https://doi.org/10.24926/2471190X.3734On The Uncompromising Hand: Remembering Spirit IslandAndrea CarlsonDrawing as Imagining Absence: Sometime prior to 1963 a person sat down at a table to draw a map. This person could effectively communicate with lines across a page, possessing the technical skills of rendering exact scale ratios of a three-dimensional space on a sheet of paper. The task of this artist was to draw a blueprint that would be used to harness a river for industrial use. https://openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/on-the-uncompromising-hand-remembering-spirit-island/ artsengagementminnesotapublic programs
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