Framing the Ocean, 1700 to the Present
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Adam Weaver
art history of oceanic space
atlantic
Carl Thompson
Carla Lois
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Catriona Mcara
colonial encounters
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Elizabeth C. Childs
Emily Ballew Neff
Emily Burns
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Erik Gilbert
Geoff Quilley
history
illustration
jack
Kirstie North
marine environmental humanities
Marion Endt-Jones
maritime cultural history
narratives
natural
Pam Longobardi
Pandora Syperek
Sarah Thomas
shipboard society
shipwreck
tacita
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underwater iconography
Victoria Carruthers
visual culture studies
Yvonne Scott
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- ISBN 9781409465683
- Weight: 771g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 Apr 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Before the eighteenth century, the ocean was regarded as a repulsive and chaotic deep. Despite reinvention as a zone of wonder and pleasure, it continued to be viewed in the West and elsewhere as ’uninhabited’, empty space. This collection, spanning the eighteenth century to the present, recasts the ocean as ’social space’, with particular reference to visual representations. Part I focuses on mappings and crossings, showing how the ocean may function as a liminal space between places and cultures but also connects and imbricates them. Part II considers ships as microcosmic societies, shaped for example by the purpose of the voyage, the mores of shipboard life, and cross-cultural encounters. Part III analyses narratives accreted to wrecks and rafts, what has sunk or floats perilously, and discusses attempts to recuperate plastic flotsam. Part IV plumbs ocean depths to consider how underwater creatures have been depicted in relation to emergent disciplines of natural history and museology, how mermaids have been reimagined as a metaphor of feminist transformation, and how the symbolism of coral is deployed by contemporary artists. This engaging and erudite volume will interest a range of scholars in humanities and social sciences, including art and cultural historians, cultural geographers, and historians of empire, travel, and tourism.
Tricia Cusack’s publications include Art and Identity at the Water’s Edge (ed.) (Ashgate 2012); Riverscapes and National Identities (Syracuse University Press 2010); Art, Nation and Gender: Ethnic Landscapes, Myths and Mother-Figures (co-edited, Ashgate 2003), and numerous articles.
