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Item Number: 128833
Title: Framing the Ocean, 1700 to the Present : Envisaging the Sea as Social Space
Author: Cusack, Tricia (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409465683
Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 24cm., hardcover, 302pp., 16 color, 29 b&w illus. Contents: Introduction: framing the ocean, 1700 to the present: envisaging the sea as a social space, Tricia Cusack; Part I Exploring the Ocean: Colonial Crossings: From mare tenebrorum to Atlantic ocean: a cartographical biography (1470-1900) , Carla Lois; The Old World anew: the Atlantic as the liminal site of expectations, Emily Burns; Second encounters in the South Seas: revisiting the shores of Cook and Bougainville in the art of Gauguin, La Farge and Barnfield, Elizabeth C. Childs. Part II Ships as Microcosms of Society: The artist travels: Augustus Earle at sea, Sarah Thomas; Sailors on horseback: the representation of seamen and social space in 18th-century British visual culture, Geoff Quilley; The ‘other’ ships: dhows and the colonial imagination in the Indian Ocean, Erik Gilbert; Representation, commerce, and consumption: the cruise industry and the ocean, Adam Weaver. Part III Narratives of Shipwrecks, Rafts, and Jetsam: Shipwrecks, mutineers and cannibals: maritime mythology and the political unconscious in 18th-century Britain, Carl Thompson; The sea as repository: Tacita Dean’s Teignmouth Electron, 1999 and Sean Lynch’s DeLorean Progress Report, 2010, Kirstie North; reconstructing the raft, semiotics and memory in the art of shipwreck and the raft, Yvonne Scott; Plastic as shadow: the toxicity of objects in the anthropocene, Pam Longobardi. Part IV Natural and Unnatural Histories: Oceanic Imaginings: A ‘dreadful apparatus’: John Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark and the cultures of natural history, Emily Ballew Neff; Mermaids and metaphors: Dorothea Tanning’s surrealist ocean, Victoria Carruthers and Catriona Mcara; ‘Something rich and strange’: coral in contemporary art, Marion Endt-Jones; ‘No fancy so wild’: slippery gender models in the coral gallery, Pandora Syperek.
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