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Author:   Tricia Cusack
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.771kg
ISBN:  

9781409465683

ISBN 10:   1409465683
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   23 April 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: Framing the ocean, 1700 to the present: envisaging the sea as 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 eighteenth-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 eighteenth-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 the 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. Index.

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Tricia Cusack's edited volume, Framing the Ocean is a thoughtful, richly detailed, and engagingly organized series of essays on the unique confluences between oceanic studies and the history of the visual arts. The range of subjects is exemplary: Romantic oceanscapes, shipwrecks, and travel narratives, yes, but also Indian Ocean dhows and mutineer typologies. Literature, painting, and sculpture link together iconographic studies of ocean liners and plastic pollution, natural histories, and coral collections, all rendered with ingenious scholarly imagination.'Matt K. Matsuda, Rutgers University, author of Pacific Worlds

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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. Tricia Cusack, Carla Lois, Emily Burns, Elizabeth C. Childs, Sarah Thomas, Geoff Quilley, Erik Gilbert, Adam Weaver, Carl Thompson, Kirstie North, Yvonne Scott, Pam Longobardi, Emily Ballew Neff, Victoria Carruthers, Catriona McAra, Marion Endt-Jones, Pandora Syperek

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