Sea Currents in Nineteenth-Century Art, Science and Culture: Commodifying the Ocean World
Year: 2023 Language: english Author: Kathleen Davidson & Molly Duggins Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts Edition: Kindle Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 353 Description: How did scientists, artists, designers, manufacturers and amateur enthusiasts experience and value the sea and its products? Examining the commoditization of the ocean world during the nineteenth century, this book demonstrates how the transaction of oceanic objects inspired a multifaceted material discourse stemming from scientific exploration, colonial expansion, industrialization, and the rise of middle-class leisure. From the seashore to the seabed, marine organisms and environments, made tangible through processing and representational technologies, captivated practitioners and audiences. Combining essays and case studies by scholars, curators, and scientists, Sea Currents investigates the collecting and display, illustration and ornamentation, and trade and consumption of marine flora and fauna, analysing their material, aesthetic and commercial dimensions. Traversing global art history, the history of science, empire studies, anthropology, ecocriticism and material culture, this book surveys the currency of marine matter embedded in the economies and ecologies of a modernizing ocean world. Additional info: About the Author: Kathleen Davidson is Honorary Research Associate, University of Sydney, Australia. Molly Duggins is Sessional Lecturer, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
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Sea Currents in Nineteenth-Century Art, Science and Culture: Commodifying the Ocean World
Language: english
Author: Kathleen Davidson & Molly Duggins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Edition: Kindle
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 353
Description: How did scientists, artists, designers, manufacturers and amateur enthusiasts experience and value the sea and its products? Examining the commoditization of the ocean world during the nineteenth century, this book demonstrates how the transaction of oceanic objects inspired a multifaceted material discourse stemming from scientific exploration, colonial expansion, industrialization, and the rise of middle-class leisure.
From the seashore to the seabed, marine organisms and environments, made tangible through processing and representational technologies, captivated practitioners and audiences. Combining essays and case studies by scholars, curators, and scientists, Sea Currents investigates the collecting and display, illustration and ornamentation, and trade and consumption of marine flora and fauna, analysing their material, aesthetic and commercial dimensions. Traversing global art history, the history of science, empire studies, anthropology, ecocriticism and material culture, this book surveys the currency of marine matter embedded in the economies and ecologies of a modernizing ocean world.
Additional info: About the Author:
Kathleen Davidson is Honorary Research Associate, University of Sydney, Australia.
Molly Duggins is Sessional Lecturer, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
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