Among global environments, the undersea is unique in the challenges
it poses - and the opportunities it affords - for sensation,
perception, inquiry, and fantasy. The Aesthetics of the Undersea
draws case studies in such potencies from the subaqueous imaginings
of Western culture, and from the undersea realities that have
inspired them. The chapters explore aesthetic engagements with
underwater worlds, and sustain a concern with submarine "sense," in
several meanings of that word: when submerged, faculties and
fantasies transform, confronting human subjects with their
limitations while enlarging the apparent scope of possibility and
invention. Terrestrially-established categories and contours shift,
metamorphose, or fail altogether to apply. As ocean health acquires
an increasing share of the global environmental imaginary, the
histories of submarine sense manifest ever-greater importance, and
offer resources for documentation as well as creativity. The
chapters deal with the sensory, material, and formal provocations
of the underwater environment, and consider the consequences of
such provocations for aesthetic and epistemological paradigms.
Contributors, who hail from the United States, United Kingdom and
Australia, include scholars of literature, art, new media, music
and history. Cases studies range from baroque and rococo fantasies
to the gothic, surrealism, modernism, and contemporary installation
art. By juxtaposing early modern and Enlightenment contexts with
matters of more recent - and indeed contemporary - importance, The
Aesthetics of the Undersea establishes crucial relations among
temporally remote entities, which will resonate across the
environmental humanities.
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