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Praise Of Ships And The Sea

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Author : Jeroen Giltaij
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Praise Of Ships And The Sea written by Jeroen Giltaij and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Marine painters categories.

Praise Of Ships And The Sea The Dutch Marine Painters Of The 17th Centruy

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Author : Jeroen Giltaij
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Praise Of Ships And The Sea The Dutch Marine Painters Of The 17th Centruy written by Jeroen Giltaij and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.

The Mirror Of The Sea

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Author : Joseph Conrad
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-05-19

The Mirror Of The Sea written by Joseph Conrad and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

From The Saturday Review, Vol. 102: In a manner Mr. Conrad's book marks an epoch, since it is written in praise of ships, by a man who has sailed them, whose style and shapes shall be sailed no more. It is, as it were, a last chanty sung to those proud canvas wings by which England clove her way to power: to her mastery of the seas and then to the wealth of them. Mr. Conrad's day was after that of the sailed fighting ships, its significance lies in its coincidence with the dying out of the type of men and the stamp of spirit which manned them; with the gradual transference of our sea-borne trade from the hands of islanders to those of aliens... Of the change, and its menace to our dominion of the seas, Mr. Conrad is acutely and regretfully conscious. Looking in that mirror of the sea he can discern one altered face, the face of a people disinclined for discomfort, unstirred by the promise of great adventure, no longer inspired by the future, inflating itself contentedly by the fireside with the memories of its achievements while others slip in unobserved to steal the reins of power out of its indolent hands. With the passing of the sailing ship has passed, or is passing, the manner of men who sailed her, men to whom the ceaseless, unrelenting struggle with the sea was a joy and a glory as well as a trade, who faced the implacable oceans, the inexorable winds, as knights of old faced an enemy, praying that he might be worthy of their valor and address. These men it was who gave us the command of the sea, because no other country could produce them of the same kind or in like quantity. France, Spain and the Netherlands, despite their splendid seamen, had to succumb at last, not to our guns nor to our money, but to the stuff we bred and could go on breeding. Now there is no more demand for it. That stuff, of which Mr. Conrad is a typical example, looks on the dirt, the unloveliness, the dull certainty of steaming with more than a landsman's disgust. Steam and iron have robbed the sea of its romance, as villainous saltpeter robbed knight-errantry. The equalizing up, or down, of ability has reduced soldiering and seamanship to a journeyman's trade, which anyone may master with application, and the born seaman has to look elsewhere for his adventure, and his species is forsaking the sea-shore. It is this change which makes Mr. Conrad's book mark an epoch, for no one could better express the mingled tenderness and resolution of the old spirit. "It is a serious relation", he says, "that in which a man stands to his ship", which he "shall learn to know with an intimacy surpassing the intimacy of man with man, to love with a love nearly as great as that of man for woman, and often as blind in its infatuated disregard of defects". He feels that love so finely that he hates to see a ship in dock "shut off from freedom . . . hunted about from wharf to wharf on a dark, greasy, square pool of black water as a brutal reward at the end of a faithful voyage ", and feels it so deeply that the treachery of the sea is for him rather to the ship than to the men who sink with her. And this detached point of view, this romantic thinking, he extends to all things of the sea. He remembers gales by their human physiognomies; by their dignified austerity, by their woebegone misery, their catastrophic splendor, their draped mystery, their ominous menace; some as ghouls bent on sucking your strength away, some as wild cats clawing at your vitals. He thinks of the great winds as benignant or malignant rulers, and in describing them indulges occasionally in that adjectival profusion which sometimes detracts from the effect of his fine prose, which, at its best, will bear comparison with anything in the language. His skill as a story-teller may be found in every chapter, but especially in the history of "The Tremolino ". It is a tale that R. L. Stevenson would have loved to tell in just the same fashion.

There Go The Ships

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Author : Henry Vallette Warren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898

There Go The Ships written by Henry Vallette Warren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Seafaring life categories.

In Praise Of Sailors

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Author : Herbert W. Warden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978

In Praise Of Sailors written by Herbert W. Warden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Transportation categories.

Prints In Translation 1450 750

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Author : EdwardH. Wouk
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05

Prints In Translation 1450 750 written by EdwardH. Wouk and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Art categories.

Printed artworks were often ephemeral, but in the early modern period, exchanges between print and other media were common, setting off chain reactions of images and objects that endured. Paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, musical or scientific instruments, and armor exerted their own influence on prints, while prints provided artists with paper veneers, templates, and sources of adaptable images. This interdisciplinary collection unites scholars from different fields of art history who elucidate the agency of prints on more traditionally valued media, and vice-versa. Contributors explore how, after translations across traditional geographic, temporal, and material boundaries, original 'meanings' may be lost, reconfigured, or subverted in surprising ways, whether a Netherlandish motif graces a cabinet in Italy or the print itself, colored or copied, is integrated into the calligraphic scheme of a Persian royal album. These intertwined relationships yield unexpected yet surprisingly prevalent modes of perception. Andrea Mantegna's 1470/1500 Battle of the Sea Gods, an engraving that emulates the properties of sculpted relief, was in fact reborn as relief sculpture, and fabrics based on print designs were reapplied to prints, returning color and tactility to the very objects from which the derived. Together, the essays in this volume witness a methodological shift in the study of print, from examining the printed image as an index of an absent invention in another medium - a painting, sculpture, or drawing - to considering its role as a generative, active agent driving modes of invention and perception far beyond the locus of its production.

Down To The Sea In Ships

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Author : Horatio Clare
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-01-02

Down To The Sea In Ships written by Horatio Clare and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-02 with Travel categories.

'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable weather, tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ships which keep landed life afloat. These ordinary men live extraordinary lives, subject to dangers and difficulties we can only imagine, from hurricanes and pirates to years of confinement in hazardous, if not hellish, environments. Horatio Clare joins two container ships on their epic voyages across the globe and experiences unforgettable journeys. As the ships cross seas of history and incident, seafarers unfold the stories of their lives, and a beautiful and terrifying portrait of the oceans and their human subjects emerges. 'Tremendous' The Times