Sharks, Death, Surfers – An Illustrated Companion

Author:   Melissa McCarthy
Publisher:   Sternberg Press
ISBN:  

9783956794247


Pages:   152
Publication Date:   02 July 2020
Format:   Paperback
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How sharks have been depicted over centuries and across cultures--and what sharks see when they look back.

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Author:   Melissa McCarthy
Publisher:   Sternberg Press
Imprint:   Sternberg Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9783956794247


ISBN 10:   3956794249
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   02 July 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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She connects the disparate narratives through concepts that are central to surfing and inherent to sharks: balance, slippage, steering, lurking, vision, light, shadows, misdirection. The method is effectively disorienting, pulling the reader into sudden, unexpected points of connection. --Bookforum Sharks, Death, Surfers is a beautiful art object, petite and strange, replete with artist renderings of sharks that span the ages, from 750 BCE to the cover of Jaws. --Bookforum


Sharks, Death, Surfers is a beautiful art object, petite and strange, replete with artist renderings of sharks that span the ages, from 750 BCE to the cover of Jaws. --Bookforum She connects the disparate narratives through concepts that are central to surfing and inherent to sharks: balance, slippage, steering, lurking, vision, light, shadows, misdirection. The method is effectively disorienting, pulling the reader into sudden, unexpected points of connection. --Bookforum


Sharks, Death, Surfers is a beautiful art object, petite and strange, replete with artist renderings of sharks that span the ages, from 750 BCE to the cover of Jaws.--Bookforum-- She connects the disparate narratives through concepts that are central to surfing and inherent to sharks: balance, slippage, steering, lurking, vision, light, shadows, misdirection. The method is effectively disorienting, pulling the reader into sudden, unexpected points of connection. --Bookforum--


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Melissa McCarthy is the Chief Obituary Reviewer of the International Necronautical Society.

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