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Art and Identity at the Water's Edge (Paperback)
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The water's edge, whether shore or riverbank, is a marginal
territory that becomes invested with layers of meaning. The essays
in this collection present intriguing perspectives on how the
water's edge has been imagined and represented in different places
at various times and how this process contributed to the formation
of social identities. Art and Identity at the Water's Edge focuses
upon national coastlines and maritime heritage; on rivers and
seashore as regions of liminality and sites of conflicting
identities; and on the edge as a tourist setting. Such themes are
related to diverse forms of art, including painting, architecture,
maps, photography, and film. Topics range from the South African
seaside resort of Durban to the French Riviera. The essays explore
successive ideological mappings of the Jordan River, and how Czech
cubist architecture and painting shaped a new nationalist reading
of the Vltava riverbanks. They examine post-Hurricane Katrina New
Orleans as a filmic spectacle that questions assumptions about
American identity, and the coast depicted as a site of patriotism
in nineteenth-century British painting. The collection demonstrates
how waterside structures such as maritime museums and lighthouses,
and visual images of the water's edge, have contributed to the
construction of cultural and national identities.
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