Author: Peabody Museum of SalemPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Whaling Prints in the Francis B. Lothrop Collection
Author: Peabody Museum of SalemPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Turner and the Whale
Author: Jason EdwardsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 178442286X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This is the guide to the exhibition, Turner and the Whale at the Hull Maritime Museum in Autumn 2017, which brings together for the first time in the UK, 3 of the 4 whaling pictures Turner was at work on in 1845-1846. As part of the city of Hull's year as the UK Capital of Culture the exhibition guide will bring the Turner whaling pictures into context with key parts of the Hull collections, including natural historical specimens, whaler carvings and Inuit art.
Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved
Author: Stuart M. FrankPublisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 1567924522
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
The New Bedford whaling fleet was the most numerous and arranging in the world, setting off on voyages that often lasted for years and extended as far as the Antarctic and Siberia. This title features over 700 detailed photos from the world's finest collection of scrimshaw, the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Trying Leviathan
Author: D. Graham BurnettPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400833981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in the courts of New York City. In Trying Leviathan, D. Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular--and biblically sanctioned--view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundane: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature--and how we know it--was at stake. Burnett vividly recreates the trial, during which a parade of experts--pea-coated whalemen, pompous philosophers, Jacobin lawyers--took the witness stand, brandishing books, drawings, and anatomical reports, and telling tall tales from whaling voyages. Falling in the middle of the century between Linnaeus and Darwin, the trial dramatized a revolutionary period that saw radical transformations in the understanding of the natural world. Out went comfortable biblical categories, and in came new sorting methods based on the minutiae of interior anatomy--and louche details about the sexual behaviors of God's creatures. When leviathan breached in New York in 1818, this strange beast churned both the natural and social orders--and not everyone would survive.
Whale
Author: Joe RomanPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861895054
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
One hundred years ago, a beached whale would have been greeted by a mob wielding flensing knives; today, people bring harnesses and boats to help it return to the sea. The whale is one of the most awe-inspiring and intelligent animals in nature, sharing a complex relationship with humans that has radically evolved over the centuries. Joe Roman offers in Whale a fascinating and in-depth look at the cultural and natural history of these majestic aquatic mammals. From the Biblical prophet Jonah to Moby-Dick to recent discoveries of cetacean songs and culture, Roman examines the whale's role in history, art, literature, commerce, and science. Whale features vibrant illustrations, ranging from Stone Age carvings to full-color underwater photographs, which vividly bring to life the rich symbolic meanings surrounding the whale. Roman also examines the ecological and evolutionary history of the whale as well as contemporary issues of conservation. Whale is an engaging volume that will appeal to all those interested in the important role that these kings of the ocean have played in human culture.
"Turner's Whaling Pictures" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 73, no. 4 (Spring, 2016)
Author: Alison HokansonPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395944
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
This Bulletin centers around Turner’s depictions of whaling and seascapes. These expressive paintings, created when the artist was in his seventies, exemplify the boldly inventive style of Turner’s later years. The Bulletin explores Turner’s interest in images of whaling, considers the connections to Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, and discusses the enduring appeal of these evocative marine scenes.
The Cumulative Book Index
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2154
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Herman Melville's Picture Gallery
Author: Stuart M. FrankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This book collects the prints and other images of whales and whaling referred to in the three "pictorial" chapters of Moby-Dick together with Melville's words.
The American Neptune
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ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A quarterly journal of maritime history.
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