Sea currents in nineteenth-century art, science and culture : commodifying the ocean world /: commodifying the ocean world. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kathleen Davidson, Molly Duggins.
• Editors: Davidson, Kathleen; Duggins, Molly
• Contents: List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgements1. 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 Products2. 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 Ecologies6. 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 Studies13. '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)BibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.45; Ocean -- Social aspects; Science -- Social aspects; Ocean in popular culture; Sea in art; Commodification -- History -- 19th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501352805
• Related ISBNs: 9781501352799
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