Coral Empire – Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity
Autor Ann Eliasen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mai 2019
Ann Elias is Associate Professor of the History and Theory of Contemporary Global Art at the University of Sydney, author of Camouflage Australia: Art, Nature, Science, and War and Useless Beauty: Flowers and Australian Art, and coeditor of Camouflage Cultures: Beyond the Art of Disappearance.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781478003823
ISBN-10: 1478003820
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 16 page color insert
Dimensiuni: 153 x 227 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 1478003820
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 16 page color insert
Dimensiuni: 153 x 227 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
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Cuprins
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I. The Coral Uncanny
1. Coral Empire 15
2. Mad Love 29
Part II. John Ernest Williamson and the Bahamas
3. Williamson and the Photosphere 49
4. The Field Museum—Williamson Undersea Expedition 68
5. Under the Sea 83
6. Williamson in Australia 97
Part III. Frank Hurley and the Great Barrier Reef
7. Hurley and the Floor of the Sea 117
8. Hurley and the Australian Museum Expedition 131
9. Pearls and Savages 147
10. Hurley and the Torres Strait Diver 165
Part IV. Hurley and Williamson
11. Explorers and Modern Media 185
12. Color and Tourism 199
Part V. The Great Acceleration
13. The Anthropocene 217
Conclusion 230
Notes 235
Bibliography 261
Index 277
Introduction 1
Part I. The Coral Uncanny
1. Coral Empire 15
2. Mad Love 29
Part II. John Ernest Williamson and the Bahamas
3. Williamson and the Photosphere 49
4. The Field Museum—Williamson Undersea Expedition 68
5. Under the Sea 83
6. Williamson in Australia 97
Part III. Frank Hurley and the Great Barrier Reef
7. Hurley and the Floor of the Sea 117
8. Hurley and the Australian Museum Expedition 131
9. Pearls and Savages 147
10. Hurley and the Torres Strait Diver 165
Part IV. Hurley and Williamson
11. Explorers and Modern Media 185
12. Color and Tourism 199
Part V. The Great Acceleration
13. The Anthropocene 217
Conclusion 230
Notes 235
Bibliography 261
Index 277
Notă biografică
Descriere
Ann Elias traces the history of two explorers whose photographs and films of tropical reefs in the 1920s cast corals and the sea as an unexplored territory to be exploited in ways that tied the tropics and reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature.