Examines the commodification of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean worlds during the long nineteenth century focusing on the transaction of marine objects
How did scientists, artists, designers, manufacturers and amateur enthusiasts experience and value the sea and its products? Taking a fresh approach to oceanic history, this book brings together material culture, oceanography, and environmental history to uncover marine object and display histories and the role they played in nineteenth-century culture.
Scientific exploration, colonial expansion, industrialization, and the rise of middle-class tourism transformed the way the ocean was seen and experienced. Its mystery, made tangible through processing and representational technologies, captivated practitioners and audiences. Combining essays and case studies by scholars, curators, and scientists, this book investigates the collecting and display, illustration and ornamentation, and trade and consumption of marine flora and fauna, analysing their material, aesthetic and commercial dimensions. Traversing global art history, the history of science, empire studies, anthropology, ecocriticism and material culture, it surveys the currency of marine matter in the economies and ecologies of a modernizing ocean world.
By highlighting the relevance and role the ocean world played in modern science and industry, art and culture, this book demonstrates the vital interconnectivity of art and science and the importance of ocean-oriented perspectives in the understanding of modern history.
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Sea Currents 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, Sea Currents offers an elaborate collection of histories that recognizes both the material and metaphorical seas. * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews * Sea Currents 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 Hawaii at Manoa; co-editor of Oceania and the Victorian Imagination (2013) * The seas 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. Johns University, USA; author of Ocean (2020) and A Cultural History of the Early Modern Sea (2021) * Sea Currents 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) *
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Examines the commodification of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean worlds during the long 19th century focusing on the transaction of marine objects.
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 Berlins 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
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.
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