Sea Currents in Nineteenth-Century Art, Science and Culture

Commodifying the Ocean World
Herausgeber: Davidson, Kathleen; Duggins, Molly

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the commodification of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean worlds during the long nineteenth century focusing on the transaction of marine objects

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Produktdetails

• Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 233mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781350239265
• ISBN-10: 1350239267
• Artikelnr.: 71552746

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Davidson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Sydney, Australia. Molly Duggins is a lecturer in the Department of Art History and Theory at the National Art School, Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Commodifying the Ocean World in the Long Nineteenth Century
Kathleen Davidson and Molly Duggins (The University of Sydney
Australia; National Art School
Sydney
Australia) Part One: Wave - Circulating Marine Products 2. Ambergris in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Medicine
Perfume and Natural History
Georgina Cole (National Art School
Sydney
Australia) 3. Imperial Coral: The Transformation of a Natural Material to a Qing Imperial Treasure
Pippa Lacey (National Maritime Museum
Greenwich
UK) 4. Echoes of Empire: The Painted Museums of Leroy de Barde
Jessica Priebe (the National Art School
Sydney
Australia) 5. 'Native Manufactures': Sailors' Valentines and the Caribbean Curio Trade
Molly Duggins (the National Art School
Sydney
Australia) Part Two: Shore - Coastal Economies and Ecologies 6. Reading the Wrack Line on the French Atlantic Shore
Maura Coughlin (Bryant University in Smithfield
Rhode Island
USA) 7. An Intense Curiosity: Marine Research Stations and Marine Specimens in the Late Nineteenth Century
Jude Philp (Macleay Museum
The University of Sydney
Australia) 8. The Tears of Pearls: Archaic Labour
Fisheries and Waste in Ceylon and Beyond
Natasha Eaton (UCL
UK) 9. Culture Keeping and Money Making: Aboriginal Women's Shellwork from the South Coast of New South Wales
Priya Vaughan (the National Art School
Sydney
Australia) Part Three: Seabed - Materializing Submarine Environments 10. Their 'Colours are Brilliant
but Fugitive': Coral Concerns from Imperial Expeditions and the British Museum to the Royal Academy and Drury Lane
Kathleen Davidson (The University of Sydney
Australia) 11. Aquariums Under the Rising Sun: A Cultural History of Early Public Aquariums in Japan
1882-1903
Yuichi Mizoi (Kansai University
Japan) 12. Merging the University Museum and Volksbildung: The Curatorial Strategies of Berlin's Museum für Meereskunde in 1900
Stefanie Lenk (The University of Göttingen
Germany) Part Four: Oceanic Objects - Museum Case Studies 13. 'An Imitation of Seaweed': Nature and Design in a Late Eighteenth-Century Printed Cotton
Ann Christie (Independent Researcher) 14. Fashioning Whale Bone: Scrimshaw and the Nineteenth-Century Tradition of the Decorative Busk
Martha Cattell (Curator and Independent Researcher) 15. The Ornamental Glass Window of the Maison des Océans in Paris: A Celebration of Evolution
Jacqueline Goy (The Oceanographic Institute
Monaco) and Robert Calcagno (Government Advisor
Ministry of the Equipment
Environment and Urban Planning
Monaco) 16. Trade Connections: The Acquisition of Blaschka Models of Marine Invertebrates by Museums in Australia and New Zealand
Jan Brazier
Curator of History
Macleay Collections
Chau Chak Wing Museum (The University of Sydney
Australia) Bibliography Index