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Sharks in the Arts

Author : Vivienne Westbrook,Shaun Collin,Dean Crawford,Mark Nicholls
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317399070

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Sharks in the Arts by Vivienne Westbrook,Shaun Collin,Dean Crawford,Mark Nicholls Pdf

This book is the most thorough exploration to date of the many ways in which a wild creature has been absorbed, reimagined and represented across the ages in all of the major art forms. The authors consider not only how the identity of sharks in the natural environment became incorporated into a cultural environment but also how sharks came to be considered the most feared creatures in the open oceans as a consequence of this incorporation. Yet sharks are especially important in helping to maintain a balance that is essential to the health of the oceans. The book begins with a treatment of the three sharks at the top of global shark-attack files from scientific, economic and environmental perspectives. Subsequent chapters engage with cultural representations of sharks in poetry, drama, art, novels, screenplay adaptations and films. Through an exploration of the ways in which sharks have been represented in human culture through the centuries, this book alerts the global community to the importance of sharks as a common cultural heritage. It aims to change perceptions of sharks so that they can become more revered than feared. The authors of this book argue that an increased understanding of sharks should lead to the development of better strategies for shark and human interactions. This book will be of great interest to researchers and students of the Environmental Humanities, Cultural History and the Arts. It is also excellent supplementary reading for courses in Zoology and Marine Science.

Resurrecting the Shark

Author : Susan Ewing
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781681773926

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A prehistoric mystery. A fossil so mesmerizing that it boggled the minds of scientists for more than a century—until a motley crew of modern day shark fanatics decided to try to bring the monster-predator back to life. In 1993, Alaskan artist and paleo-fish freak Ray Troll stumbled upon the weirdest fossil he had ever seen—a platter-sized spiral of tightly wound shark teeth. This chance encounter in the basement of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County sparked Troll's obsession with Helicoprion, a mysterious monster shark from deep time. In 2010, tattooed amateur strongman and returning Iraq War veteran Jesse Pruitt was also severely smitten by a Helicoprion fossil in a museum basement in Idaho. These two bizarre-shark disciples found each other, and an unconventional band of collaborators grew serendipitously around them, determined to solve the puzzle of the tooth whorl once and for all. Helicoprion was a Paleozoic chondrichthyan about the size of a modern great white shark, with a circular saw of teeth centered in its lower jaw—a feature unseen in the shark world before or since. For some ten million years, long before the Age of Dinosaurs, Helicoprion patrolled the shallow seas around the supercontinent Pangaea as the apex predator of its time. Just a few tumultuous years after Pruitt and Troll met, imagination, passion, scientific process, and state-of-the-art technology merged into an unstoppable force that reanimated the remarkable creature—and made important new discoveries. In this groundbreaking book, Susan Ewing reveals these revolutionary insights into what Helicoprion looked like and how the tooth whorl functioned—pushing this dazzling and awe-inspiring beast into the spotlight of modern science

Shark

Author : Richard Ellis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781461747925

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“The sharks, ancient or modern, real or imaginary, have always been with us, and will probably remain with us forever. They appear not only in movies and literature, but in countless permutations of size, shape, and materials, permeating our daily lives with their silent menace. In a sense, humans live in a world replete with sharks, not vice-versa.” Thus Richard Ellis sets about chronicling and debunking the myths of sharks throughout history. From 18th century art to the phenomena of JAWS, “the shark” has remained the indomitable aggressor of the deep, the last demon of humankind. The image of the shark and the fear it inspires infiltrates our daily lives with its mythical power and strength. But it is not man who should fear the shark. Our need to dominate these predators is destroying them and their habitat. Through hundreds of full-color images Ellis proves the necessity of preserving these majestic creatures. As curator of the Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art’s exhibition entitled “Shark”, debuting May 2012, Ellis adeptly turns these sleek, efficient hunters from monsters of the deep into rare, beautiful forces of nature.

Neighborhood Sharks

Author : Katherine Roy
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781466880832

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Neighborhood Sharks by Katherine Roy Pdf

Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them—just twenty-six miles from the Golden Gate Bridge! A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants dine on steaks, salads, and sandwiches, the great white sharks return to California's Farallon Islands to dine on their favorite meal: the seals that live on the island's rocky coasts. Massive, fast, and perfectly adapted to hunting after 11 million years of evolution, the great whites are among the planet's most fearsome, fascinating, and least understood animals. In the fall of 2012, Katherine Roy visited the Farallons with the scientists who study the islands' shark population. She witnessed seal attacks, observed sharks being tagged in the wild, and got an up close look at the dramatic Farallons—a wildlife refuge that is strictly off-limits to all but the scientists who work there. Neighborhood Sharks is an intimate portrait of the life cycle, biology, and habitat of the great white shark, based on the latest research and an up-close visit with these amazing animals.

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark

Author : Don Thompson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780230341937

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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark by Don Thompson Pdf

Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored. This book is the first to look at the economics and the marketing strategies that enable the modern art market to generate such astronomical prices. Drawing on interviews with past and present executives of auction houses and art dealerships, artists, and the buyers who move the market, Thompson launches the reader on a journey of discovery through the peculiar world of modern art. Surprising, passionate, gossipy, revelatory, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark reveals a great deal that even experienced auction purchasers do not know.

Sharks of the World Coloring Book

Author : Llyn Hunter,Coloring Books,Sea Life
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989-11-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486261379

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Sharks of the World Coloring Book by Llyn Hunter,Coloring Books,Sea Life Pdf

Twenty-five species of sharks — carefully researched, skillfully rendered, and ready to color — ranging from the tiny cookiecutter shark (11¼ inches) to the monstrous whale shark (up to 65 feet). Also includes hammerhead, tiger, blue, leopard, great white, more. Captioned information on habitat, size, distinguishing characteristics, other data.

Shark Drunk

Author : Morten Stroksnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780451493491

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Shark Drunk by Morten Stroksnes Pdf

A salty story of friendship, adventure, and the explosive life that teems beneath the ocean The Lofoten archipelago, just North of the Arctic Circle, is a place of unsurpassed beauty—the skyline spikes with dramatic peaks; the radiant greens and purples of the Northern Lights follow summers where the sun never sets. It’s a place of small villages, where the art of fishing, though evolving, is still practiced in traditional ways. Beneath the great depths surrounding these islands lurks the infamous Greenland shark. At twenty-four feet in length and weighing more than a ton, it is truly a beast to behold. But the shark is not known just for its size: Its meat contains a toxin that, when consumed, has been known to make people drunk and hallucinatory. Shark Drunk is the true story of two friends, the author and the eccentric artist Hugo Aasjord, as they embark on a wild pursuit of the famed creature—all from a tiny rubber boat. Together they tackle existential questions and encounter the world’s most powerful maelstrom as they attempt to understand the ocean from every possible angle, drawing on poetry, science, history, ecology, mythology, and their own—sometimes intoxicated—observations, meanwhile pursuing the elusive Greenland shark. By turns thrilling, wise, and hilarious, Shark Drunk is a celebration of adventure, marine life, and, above all, friendship. Winner of the Norwegian Brage Prize 2015 Winner of the Norwegian Critics’ Prize for Literature 2015 Winner of the Norwegian Reine Ord Prize at Lofoten International Literature Festival 2016

Sharks

Author : Gare Thompson
Publisher : Britannica Digital Learning
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615358731

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Learn basic art techniques and interesting facts while drawing sharks. Perfect for illustrated reports.

The Little Book of Knowledge: Sharks

Author : Bernard Seret
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1684065097

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There's a Shark in the Bath

Author : Sarah McIntyre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Baths
ISBN : 1407185438

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What would you do if you found a shark in the bath? Or three of them - Papa Shark, Mama Shark and Baby Shark? The sharks are keen on a hearty breakfast, but Dulcie knows just how to outwit such cheeky sea creatures and sends them packing before Dad even gets a glimpse. A smashing picture book treat from the illustrator of YOU CAN'T EAT A PRINCESS.

Shark Infested Waters

Author : Sarah Kent
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015033258214

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Catalogue of the Saatchi collection of contemporary British art.

Sharks Inc. (Colorado)

Author : Sharks Inc. (Colorado)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1420685760

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Sharks (A Day in the Life)

Author : Carlee Jackson,Neon Squid
Publisher : Neon Squid
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781684493265

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Sharks (A Day in the Life) by Carlee Jackson,Neon Squid Pdf

"An attractive series for kids intrigued by animals in the wild." -- Booklist Set over a 24-hour period, meet deadly tiger sharks, baby lemon sharks, and gigantic basking sharks in this kids’ nonfiction book about the coolest predators in the ocean. Dive under the sea to follow the lives of individual sharks as they hunt, hide, and play their way through their day. Marine biologist and shark conservationist Carlee Jackson cleverly weaves the story from gargantuan whale sharks to tiny epaulette sharks (who hunt in rock pools!) in the style of a nature documentary. She also includes gentle science explanations perfect for future biologists. Witness incredible moments including: • A great white shark escaping a pod of orcas • A giant hammerhead hunting stingrays • A nurse shark asleep in a coral reef Beautifully illustrated by Chaaya Prabhat and packed with animal facts, Sharks (A Day in the Life) encourages kids to look at sharks in a new light—not just fearsome hunters but endangered animals who play a key role in the ocean’s ecosystem. Also available: Bugs, Big Cats, Horses

Draw 50 Sharks, Whales, and Other Sea Creatures

Author : Lee J. Ames,Warren Budd
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780770432942

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Draw 50 Sharks, Whales, and Other Sea Creatures by Lee J. Ames,Warren Budd Pdf

Lee Ames, together with Warren Budd, present 50 inhabitants of the deep in step-by-step sketches. "Includes no less than 11 kinds of sharks and 13 animals of the whale family." -- School Library Journal.

Sharks Activity Book

Author : Make Believe Ideas Ltd
Publisher : Scratch and Sparkle
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1789473918

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Sharks Activity Book by Make Believe Ideas Ltd Pdf