{"product_id":"sea-currents-in-nineteenthcentury-art-science-and-culture-9781501352782","title":"Sea Currents in NineteenthCentury Art Science and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathleen Davidson\u003c\/b\u003e is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Sydney, Australia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMolly Duggins\u003c\/b\u003e is a lecturer in the Department of Art History and Theory at the National Art School, Sydney, Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSea Currents\u003c\/i\u003e expands our thinking about human interactions with the oceans, linking developments in museums, consumerism, exploration, and colonialism with artistic and scientific culture, in an engaging discussion of how the ocean world was commodified by and for diverse communities. * Peter H. Hoffenberg, Professor of History, University of Hawai’i at Manoa; co-editor of Oceania and the Victorian Imagination (2013) *\u003cbr\u003eThe sea’s leavings – whalebone, spermaceti, isinglass, mother-of-pearl, coral, seaweed – fascinate and allure. Exploring how nineteenth-century oceanic commodities were desired, extracted, displayed, and sold around the world, this volume provides a fascinating portrait of the Victorian sea and its global meanings. * Steve Mentz, Professor of English, St. John’s University, USA; author of Ocean (2020) and A Cultural History of the Early Modern Sea (2021) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSea Currents\u003c\/i\u003e moves beyond sublime seascapes and shipwrecks to uncover marine object and display histories and the myriad ways they infiltrated everyday life. From rich and strange to domesticated, here the sea not only exceeds the frame but blows it apart. * Pandora Syperek, co-editor, ‘Curating the Sea’, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 2020, and Oceans (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art, 2023) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSea Currents\u003c\/i\u003e forwards an important intervention for historians to consider the oceans beyond their conventional treatment as surfaces or metaphors...In light of this lacuna in historiography, \u003ci\u003eSea Currents\u003c\/i\u003e offers an elaborate collection of histories that recognizes both the material and metaphorical seas. * H-Net *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/b\u003e  1. Commodifying the Ocean World in the Long Nineteenth Century,\u003ci\u003e Kathleen Davidson and Molly Duggins (The University of Sydney, Australia; National Art School, Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart One: Wave – Circulating Marine Products\u003c\/b\u003e  2. Ambergris in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Medicine, Perfume and Natural History, \u003ci\u003eGeorgina Cole (National Art School, Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e  3. Imperial Coral: The Transformation of a Natural Material to a Qing Imperial Treasure, \u003ci\u003ePippa Lacey (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  4. Echoes of Empire: The Painted Museums of Leroy de Barde, \u003ci\u003eJessica Priebe (the National Art School, Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e  5. ‘Native Manufactures’: Sailors’ Valentines and the Caribbean Curio Trade,\u003ci\u003e Molly Duggins (the National Art School, Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart Two: Shore – Coastal Economies and Ecologies\u003c\/b\u003e  6. Reading the Wrack Line on the French Atlantic Shore, \u003ci\u003eMaura Coughlin (Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  7. An Intense Curiosity: Marine Research Stations and Marine Specimens in the Late Nineteenth Century, \u003ci\u003eJude Philp (Macleay Museum, The University of Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e  8. The Tears of Pearls: Archaic Labour, Fisheries and Waste in Ceylon and Beyond, \u003ci\u003eNatasha Eaton (UCL, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  9. Culture Keeping and Money Making: Aboriginal Women's Shellwork from the South Coast of New South Wales, \u003ci\u003ePriya Vaughan (the National Art School, Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart Three: Seabed – Materializing Submarine Environments \u003c\/b\u003e  10. Their 'Colours are Brilliant, but Fugitive’: Coral Concerns from Imperial Expeditions and the British Museum to the Royal Academy and Drury Lane, \u003ci\u003eKathleen Davidson (The University of Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e  11. Aquariums Under the Rising Sun: A Cultural History of Early Public Aquariums in Japan, 1882-1903, \u003ci\u003eYuichi Mizoi (Kansai University, Japan)\u003c\/i\u003e  12. Merging the University Museum and Volksbildung: The Curatorial Strategies of Berlin’s Museum für Meereskunde in 1900, \u003ci\u003eStefanie Lenk (The University of Göttingen, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart Four: Oceanic Objects – Museum Case Studies\u003c\/b\u003e  13. ‘An Imitation of Seaweed’: Nature and Design in a Late Eighteenth-Century Printed Cotton, \u003ci\u003eAnn Christie (Independent Researcher)\u003c\/i\u003e  14. Fashioning Whale Bone: Scrimshaw and the Nineteenth-Century Tradition of the Decorative Busk, \u003ci\u003eMartha Cattell (Curator and Independent Researcher)\u003c\/i\u003e  15. The Ornamental Glass Window of the Maison des Océans in Paris: A Celebration of Evolution, \u003ci\u003eJacqueline Goy (The Oceanographic Institute, Monaco) and Robert Calcagno (Government Advisor, Ministry of the Equipment, Environment and Urban Planning, Monaco)\u003c\/i\u003e  16. Trade Connections: The Acquisition of Blaschka Models of Marine Invertebrates by Museums in Australia and New Zealand, \u003ci\u003eJan Brazier, Curator of History, Macleay Collections, Chau Chak Wing Museum (The University of Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eBibliography\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409312293207,"sku":"9781501352782","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501352782.jpg?v=1730506379","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sea-currents-in-nineteenthcentury-art-science-and-culture-9781501352782","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}