Graphic Interlude: Reinventing the Sea
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This graphic interlude features pictures illustrating this issue’s topic: the sea as symbol, metaphor and unit of analysis.
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Figure 1. Sir Walter Raleigh’s Map of the Indian Ocean in The History of the World, London

Printed for Walter Burre, 1614, p. 128-9.
Source: https://archive.org/details/historyofworld00rale/page/n12/mode/2up
Figure 5. Aristide Maillol, La vague, c. 1898

Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris. Source: http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/petit-palais/oeuvres/la-vague
Figure 7. Cover of The Ocean Ferry, January 1934

Source: https://dams.antwerpen.be/asset/A1xalXNIMZKbCnTupbZ1dkzy/I2TaCCHuUhq5gmqGSWzDSo0v
Figure 10. David Cox (1783-1859). Brig and fishing boats at sea; choppy sea with boats sailing right

s.d. Courtesy of the British Museum (item 1878,1228.57)
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Title | Figure 1. Sir Walter Raleigh’s Map of the Indian Ocean in The History of the World, London |
Caption | Printed for Walter Burre, 1614, p. 128-9. |
Credits | Source: https://archive.org/details/historyofworld00rale/page/n12/mode/2up |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1147/img-1.jpg |
File | image/jpeg, 635k |
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Title | Figure 2. Marina Beach Peasant Statues |
Credits | Credit: Geetha Ganapathy-Doré |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1147/img-2.jpg |
File | image/jpeg, 164k |
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Title | Figure 3. Muddy footsteps |
Credits | Credit: Ludmila Volná |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1147/img-3.jpg |
File | image/jpeg, 962k |
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Title | Figure 4. The churning of the milk ocean (Rsagara manthana) |
Credits | Source: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/s3wypcze |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1147/img-4.jpg |
File | image/jpeg, 142k |
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Title | Figure 5. Aristide Maillol, La vague, c. 1898 |
Credits | Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris. Source: http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/petit-palais/oeuvres/la-vague |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1147/img-5.jpg |
File | image/jpeg, 559k |
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Title | Figure 6. Joni Sternbach. 99.09.18 #11, from the series “Ocean Details”, 1999 |
Credits | Source: https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/44065 |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1147/img-6.jpg |
File | image/jpeg, 48k |
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Title | Figure 7. Cover of The Ocean Ferry, January 1934 |
Credits | Source: https://dams.antwerpen.be/asset/A1xalXNIMZKbCnTupbZ1dkzy/I2TaCCHuUhq5gmqGSWzDSo0v |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1147/img-7.jpg |
File | image/jpeg, 164k |
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Title | Figure 8. Two Dragons among Clouds and Waves, Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644 |
Credits | Credit: https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/32680 |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1147/img-8.jpg |
File | image/jpeg, 532k |
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Title | Figure 9. Cuban Boat, c. 1895-1920 |
Credits | Credit: https://www.loc.gov/item/89708755 |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1147/img-9.jpg |
File | image/jpeg, 34k |
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Title | Figure 10. David Cox (1783-1859). Brig and fishing boats at sea; choppy sea with boats sailing right |
Credits | s.d. Courtesy of the British Museum (item 1878,1228.57) |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1147/img-10.jpg |
File | image/jpeg, 696k |
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Electronic reference
Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, Ludmila Volná, Walter Raleigh, Aristide Maillol, Joni Sternbach and David Cox, “Graphic Interlude: Reinventing the Sea”, Angles [Online], 9 | 2019, Online since 01 November 2019, connection on 15 March 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/angles/1147; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.1147
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