• Arctic exploration and the mobility of phrenology: John Ross's ethnographic portraits of the Netsilingmiut 

      Høvik, Ingeborg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-14)
      Analysing a set of ethnographic images and illustrations resulting from John Ross’s second voyage to find a Northwest Passage in 1829–1833, this article considers the ways in which Arctic exploration intersected with emergent scientific thinking about race and ethnicity in Britain. In particular, it examines how mobility impacted ideas of phrenology and scientific imaging in the context of the ...
    • Humanity on the move in the era of Enlightenment and colonisation 

      Buchan, Bruce; Burnett, Linda Andersson; Høvik, Ingeborg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-14)
      In modern times, since commerce is so much extended, that people in very distant parts of the world, have an almost constant communication with one another, we have much better access to know the different circumstances which can affect men in different situations … [and] has produced a very considerable effect in enlarging our ideas on this subject.
    • Outsider Art? Herleik Kristiansens kunstneriske prosesser 

      Federhofer, Marie-Theres; Høvik, Ingeborg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-09)
      Denne artikkelen utfordrer anvendeligheten av konseptet <i>Outsider Art</i> gjennom en analyse av Herleik Kristiansens kunstneriske prosesser. Kristiansen er psykisk utviklingshemmet, og i perioden 1963–93 var han beboer ved institusjonen Trastad Gård. Prosessene som diskuteres er: Kristiansens utvikling som kunstner, hans særegne måte å skape kunst på og til sist transformasjonen av natur til kultur ...
    • Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq 

      Høvik, Ingeborg; Jeremiassen, Axel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-09)
      This article analyses the portrait of the young Inughuit hunter Qalaherriaq, who was brought involuntarily to England from his home in Perlernerit (Cape York) in today's Kalaallit Nunaat (also known as Greenland) with Captain Erasmus Ommanney’s expedition vessel in 1851. The portrait’s highly unconventional representation, wherein the sitter is shown both en face and in profile, betrays an interest ...