Melissa McCarthy

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Sharks, Death, Surfers: An Illustrated CompanionPaperback, 18 June 2019

Sharks, Death, Surfers: An Illustrated Companion
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Print Length
152 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Sternberg Press
Date Published
18 Jun 2019
ISBN-10
3956794249
ISBN-13
9783956794247

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How sharks have been depicted over centuries and across cultures--and what sharks see when they look back.

We encounter the world through surfaces: the screen, the page, our skin, the ocean's swell. Here on the sea is the surfer, positioned at the edge of the collapsing wave. And lurking underneath in a monstrous mirroring is the shark. When the two meet, carving along the surface, breaking through the boundary, death appears.

Steering her analysis from the newspaper obituary through literature and past cinema, Melissa McCarthy investigates a fundamental aspect of the human condition: our state of being between life and death, always in precarious and watery balance. Sharks, Death, Surfers observes how sharks have been depicted over centuries and across cultures, then flips the lens (and dissects the cornea) to consider what sharks see when they look back.

These refracted lines of inquiry--optical, philosophical, historical--converge at the focal point where we can fix the image of the surfer and the shark. This is the picture McCarthy frames: the cartilaginous companions gliding together in a perfect model of how to read, navigate, and exist.

Product Details

Author:
Melissa McCarthy
Book Format:
Paperback
Date Published:
18 June 2019
Dimensions:
17.93 x 12.07 x 1.35 cm
ISBN-10:
3956794249
ISBN-13:
9783956794247
Language:
English
Location:
Cambridge
Pages:
152
Publisher:
Weight:
185.97 gm

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