Yale Center for British Art

Title:
The cultures of seaweed : a singularly marine & fabulous produce / Naomi Slipp and Maura Coughlin ; with contributions from Stacy Alaimo [and 9 others].
Alternate Title(s):
Singularly marine & fabulous produce
Published / Created:
New Beford, MA : New Bedford Whaling Museum, [2023]

©2023
Physical Description:
221 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA, from 16 June - 3 December 2023.
Contents:
Foreword / Amanda McMullen -- Seaweed gathering in American art and intertidal economies as coastal culture / Naomi Slipp -- Wrack line design: Seaweed in visual culture and amateur science in France / Maura Coughlin -- Anna Atkins and her botanical networks / Anjuli Lebowitz -- Flowers from Neptune's garden: seaweed albums and the refinement of perception / Kathrine Duffy -- The history of scientific seaweed study / Line Le Gall -- Pressed and printed: four moments in the pictorial journey of a seaweed / Christina Michelon -- Seaweed as material and material culture as seaweed / Marina Wells -- Andrew and Betsy Wyeth at Ocean's Edge / William L. Coleman -- The slippery films of seaweeds / Melody Jue -- Caring for weeds: specimens, speculative intimacy, and anthropocene aesthetics / Stacy Alaimo -- Ocean underworld: contemporary seaweed artists of New England -- Opportunities and future directions of seaweed aquaculture in the United States / Charles Yarish.
Subject Terms:
Marine algae -- In art -- Exhibitions.
Contributors:
Slipp, Naomi, author. | Coughlin, Maura, author. | Alaimo, Stacy, contributor. | New Bedford Whaling Museum, host institution, publisher.