Daniela Bleichmar, Meredith Martin

Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World presents a collection of 12 original essays that examine the circulation of objects across global regions and cultures from the 16th to 18th centuries.
_ Features essays that represents an extremely wide cultural, geographical, and material scope while offering new insights into the specificity of early modern exchange
_ Inspires broader questions about the disciplinary boundaries and frameworks of art history, visual culture, and material culture
_ Presents innovative research that sheds new light on little-known historical objects and phenomena
_ Calls into question traditional geographies and hierarchies associated with global exchange and challenges outdated center-periphery models

Produktdetails

• Art History Special Issues
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A119217340
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 213mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 781g
• ISBN-13: 9781119217343
• ISBN-10: 1119217342
• Artikelnr.: 44505554

Autorenporträt

Daniela Bleichmar is Associate Professor of Art History and History at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment (2012), and co-editor of Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World (2011) and Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800 (2009). Meredith Martin is Associate Professor of Art History at New York University and the Institute of Fine Arts. She is the author of Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de' Medici to Marie-Antoinette (2011), and co-author of Period Eye: Karen Kilimnik's Fancy Pictures (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World (Meredith Martin and Daniela Bleichmar)

1. Exotica on the Move: Birds of Paradise in Early Modern Holland (Claudia Swan)

2.The Persian Madonna and Child: Commodified Gifts between Diplomacy and Armed Struggle (Sinem Arcak Casale)

3. Mirror Reflections: Louis XIV, Phra Narai, and the Material Culture of Kingship (Meredith Martin)

4. An Imperial Mughal Tent and Mobile Sovereignty in Eighteenth-Century Jodhpur (Zirwat Chowdhury)

5. History in Pictures: Translating the Codex Mendoza (Daniela Bleichmar)

6. Chinese Porcelain and Muslim Port Cities: Mercantile Materiality in Coastal East Africa (Sandy Prita Meier)

7. Chairs, Writing Tables, and Chests: Indian Ocean Furniture and the Postures of Commercial Documentation in Coastal Yemen, 1700-40 (Nancy Um)

8. Metamorphosis at the Mughal Court (Jessica Keating)

9.Transporting India: The Gentil Album and Mughal Manuscript Culture (Chanchal Dadlani)

10. Peepboxes, Society, and Visuality in Early Modern China (Kristina Kleutghen)

11. From ByMbu to Biombo: The Transformation of the Japanese Folding Screen in Colonial Mexico (Sofía Sanabrais)

12. Nails, Necklaces and Curiosities: Scenes of Exchange in Bougainville's Tahiti (Mary Sheriff) Index