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    Framing the ocean, 1700 to the present : envisaging the sea as social space / edited by Tricia Cusack.

    • Title:Framing the ocean, 1700 to the present : envisaging the sea as social space / edited by Tricia Cusack.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Cusack, Tricia, editor.
    • Published/Created:Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing, [2014]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Sea in art.
      Arts, Modern--Themes, motives.
      Ocean and civilization.
      Human ecology.
      Social ecology.
    • Description:xviii, 265 pages, 16 numbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781409465683 (hardcover : alk. paper)
      1409465683 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I EXPLORING THE OCEAN: COLONIAL CROSSINGS
      1. From Mare Tenebrorum to Atlantic Ocean: A Cartographical Biography (1470-1900) / Carla Lois
      2. Old World Anew: The Atlantic as the Liminal Site of Expectations / Emily Burns
      3. 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
      pt. II SHIPS AS MICROCOSMS OF SOCIETY
      4. Artist Travels: Augustus Earle at Sea / Sarah Thomas
      5. Sailors on Horseback: The Representation of Seamen and Social Space in Eighteenth-Century British Visual Culture / Geoff Quilley
      6. "Other" Ships: Dhows and the Colonial Imagination in the Indian Ocean / Erik Gilbert
      7. Representation, Commerce, and Consumption: The Cruise Industry and the Ocean / Adam Weaver
      pt. III NARRATIVES OF SHIPWRECKS, RAFTS, AND JETSAM
      8. Shipwrecks, Mutineers and Cannibals: Maritime Mythology and the Political Unconscious in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Carl Thompson
      9. Sea as a Repository: Tacita Dean's Teignmouth Electron, 1999 and Sean Lynch's DeLorean Progress Report, 2010 / Kirstie North
      10. Reconstructing the Raft: Semiotics and Memory in the Art of the Shipwreck and the Raft / Yvonne Scott
      11. Plastic as Shadow: The Toxicity of Objects in the Anthropocene / Pam Longobardi
      pt. IV NATURAL AND UNNATURAL HISTORIES: OCEANIC IMAGININGS
      12. "Dreadful Apparatus": John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark and the Cultures of Natural History / Emily Ballew Neff
      13. Mermaids and Metaphors: Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist Ocean / Catriona McAra
      14. "Something Rich and Strange": Coral in Contemporary Art / Marion Endt-Jones
      15. "No Fancy So Wild": Slippery Gender Models in the Coral Gallery / Pandora Syperek.
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