african
African Beach
Anna Hartnell
beach
Beach Culture
Beach Photography
Cajun Culture
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Christiana Payne
coast
coastal architecture analysis
Colin Harding
Darling Harbour
Deborah Ascher Barnstone
Durban Beachfront
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France's Mediterranean Coast
frances
Glyn Newman
Heather Hughes
Hel Peninsula
Kevin J. James
Levees Broke
liminality theory
London Pool
Madaba Map
Malgorzata Omilanowska
maritime heritage research
Maritime Museums
mediterranean
Napoleon III
national identity formation
navy
North Foreland
Oder River
Oil On Canvas
portuguese
Portuguese Navy
Rachel Havrelock
resorts
river's
River's Edge
riverbank representation
Sea Water
seaside
Swamp Tours
Tania Woloshyn
Teresa Costa
Thames Set
Tourism Boosters
UNCLOS Iii
Vicky Greenaway
visual arts and social identity construction
visual culture studies
Water's Edge
William Taylor
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138249899
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The water's edge, whether shore or riverbank, is a marginal territory that becomes invested with layers of meaning. The essays in this collection present intriguing perspectives on how the water's edge has been imagined and represented in different places at various times and how this process contributed to the formation of social identities. Art and Identity at the Water's Edge focuses upon national coastlines and maritime heritage; on rivers and seashore as regions of liminality and sites of conflicting identities; and on the edge as a tourist setting. Such themes are related to diverse forms of art, including painting, architecture, maps, photography, and film. Topics range from the South African seaside resort of Durban to the French Riviera. The essays explore successive ideological mappings of the Jordan River, and how Czech cubist architecture and painting shaped a new nationalist reading of the Vltava riverbanks. They examine post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans as a filmic spectacle that questions assumptions about American identity, and the coast depicted as a site of patriotism in nineteenth-century British painting. The collection demonstrates how waterside structures such as maritime museums and lighthouses, and visual images of the water's edge, have contributed to the construction of cultural and national identities.
Tricia Cusack's publications include Riverscapes and National Identities (2010); Art, Nation and Gender (co-edited; Ashgate 2003), and numerous articles. She teaches at the University of Birmingham.
