Carl Douglas (1965-)


Abandon ship

shipwreck in art

Douglas, Carl | ABANDON SHIP : shipwreck in art


BoklivArtikelnr: 9789171265869

Boken utforskar konsthistorien genom skildringar av skeppsbrott och människans kamp mot havets faror.

  • Utforskar konsthistoriska skildringar av skeppsbrott.

  • Behandlar teman som mänsklig sårbarhet och överlevnad.

  • Utgiven i halvklotband med 240 sidor.

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Bindning: Halvklotband

Bokförlag: Ocean Books
ISBN: 9789171265869

Omfång: 240 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2022-11-07

Översättare: Urbom, Ruth
Originaltitel: Undergång

Förlagets information

The sea has always held a special fascination. It carried people to new continents and enabled trade and progress. But the sea, dark and stormy, also represented a threat to human life.This book is a dramatic, tempestuous, glorious journey through art history. Spectacular paintings have transformed shipwrecks into powerful metaphors for human vulnerability. These works depict fear and bravery, hope and desperation, life and death – and people’s struggle against immense danger. Rocky coastlines and gales can reduce human ambitions to splinters.Following on from his successful titles Ghost Ships and Shipwreck, also published by Max Ström, author and historian Carl Douglas has joined forces with marine archaeologist Björn Hagberg and science journalist Martin Widman to create this magnificent volume. They take the reader on a journey spanning several centuries, from medieval mythical disasters via Romantic tragedies to shipwrecks in the contemporary realist era. The introduction is written by Christine Riding, head of the curatorial department at London’s National Gallery.

The sea has always held a special fascination. It carried people to new continents and enabled trade and progress. But the sea, dark and stormy, also represented a threat to human life.

This book is a dramatic, tempestuous, glorious journey through art history. Spectacular paintings have transformed shipwrecks into powerful metaphors for human vulnerability. These works depict fear and bravery, hope and desperation, life and death – and people’s struggle against immense danger. Rocky coastlines and gales can reduce human ambitions to splinters.

Following on from his successful titles Ghost Ships and Shipwreck, also published by Max Ström, author and historian Carl Douglas has joined forces with marine archaeologist Björn Hagberg and science journalist Martin Widman to create this magnificent volume. They take the reader on a journey spanning several centuries, from medieval mythical disasters via Romantic tragedies to shipwrecks in the contemporary realist era. The introduction is written by Christine Riding, head of the curatorial department at London’s National Gallery.

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Vanliga frågor om Abandon ship av Carl Douglas

Boken 'Abandon ship: shipwreck in art' utforskar havets fascination genom historien, med fokus på skeppsbrott som metaforer för mänsklig sårbarhet.

Boken belyser teman som rädsla, mod, hopp och desperation, samt människans kamp mot faror genom konstverk från medeltiden till modern tid.

Boken är en ny halvklotband med 240 sidor, utgiven av Ocean Books den 7 november 2022, och har ISBN 9789171265869.

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