The Aesthetics of the Undersea

ISBN-13: 9780367001582 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 236 str.

Margaret Cohen; Killian Quigley

Opis

Among global environments, the undersea is unique in the challenges it poses – and the opportunities it affords – for sensation, perception, inquiry, and imagination. The Aesthetics of the Undersea charts a history of the subaqueous in Western culture, from the early modern period to the present.

Spis treści

Introduction: Submarine Aesthetics  1. The Aesthetics of the Early Modern Grotto and the Advent of an Empirical Nature  2. The Porcellaneous Ocean: Matter and Meaning in the Rococo Undersea  3. The Logic of the Invisible: Perceiving the Submarine World in French Enlightenment Geography  4. Understanding the Loss of Colour  5. Hydromania: The Social History and Literary Significance of Romantic Swimming  6. The Great Melancholy Mother: Michelet’s Evolutionary Ocean in The Sea 7. "The Forsaken Merman," "The Little Mermaid," and Early Modernism: Undersea Imagery for the Dissociation and Dissolution of Culture  8. Encountering Living Corals: A Nineteenth-Century Scientist and Artist Reveals the Underwater Realm  9. Frank Hurley and the Symbolic Underwater  10. The Shipwreck of Reason: The Surrealist Diver and Modern Maritime Salvage  11. The Shipwreck as Undersea Gothic  12. Deep Time & Myriad Ecosystems: Urban Biotic Imaginaries and Unstable Planetary Aesthetics  13. Siren and Silent Song: Evolution and Extinction in the Submarine  14.The Ocean Hospital – a Walk around the Ward