Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century (eBook, ePUB)

Art, Mobility, and Change
Redaktion: Bellion, Wendy; Smentek, Kristel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Things change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their earliest functions, locations, and appearances. While every era witnesses change, the eighteenth century experienced artistic, economic, and demographic transformations that exerted unique pressures on material cultures around the world. Locating material objects at the heart of such phenomena, Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century expands beyond Eurocentric perspectives to discover the mobile, transcultural nature of eighteenth-century art worlds. From porcelain to betel leaves, Chumash hats to natural history cabinets, this book examines how objects embody imperialism, knowledge, and resistance in various ways.

By embracing things both elite and everyday, this volume investigates physical and technological manipulations of objects while attending to the human agents who shaped them in an era of accelerating global contact and conquest. Featuring ten essays, the volume foregrounds diverse scholarly approaches to chart new directions for art history and cultural history. Ranging from California to China, Bengal to Britain, Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century illuminates the transformations within and between artistic media, follows natural and human-made things as they migrate across territories, and reveals how objects catalyzed change in the transoceanic worlds of the early modern period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350259058
• Artikelnr.: 66741680

Autorenporträt

Wendy Bellion is Sewell C. Biggs Chair in American Art History and Associate Dean for the Humanities at the University of Delaware, USA. Her research focuses on North American art and the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is the author of Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America (2011) and Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment (2019). Kristel Smentek is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Her research engages eighteenth-century European graphic and decorative arts in their transcultural contexts. She is the author of Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe (2014), co-editor of Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment (2022), and co-curator of the accompanying exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction
"Things Change"
Wendy Bellion
University of Delaware
USA; Kristel Smentek
MIT
USA 1. 'A Sort of Picture or Image of my Self': Amoy Chinqua's Almost Ancestral Portrait of Joseph Collet
Winnie Wong
University of California
Berkeley
USA 2. Shooting for Freedom: Examining the Material World of Self-Emancipated Persons
Tiffany Momon
Sewanee: The University of the South
USA 3. Something Old
Something New: Repurposing and the Production of Ephemeral Festival Architecture in 18th-Century Paris
Matthew Gin
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
USA 4. Botanical Fantasy in Silk: Transformations of A Rococo Floral Design from England to China
Mei Mei Rado
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
USA 5. Making Marble Edible: Madame de Pompadour
Friendship
and the Multiple Lives of Porcelain
Susan M. Wager
University of New Hampshire
Durham
USA 6. The Sovereign Betel in Eighteenth-Century Bengal and Bihar
Zirwat Chowdhury
University of California
Los Angeles
USA 7. Isaiah Thomas's Stamp Acts at the Halifax Gazette: Printers and Tacit Protest in Revolutionary America
Jennifer Y. Chuong
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Germany 8. Between Art and Nature: The Dauphin's Treasure at the Royal Cabinet of Natural History in Madrid
Tara Zanardi
Hunter College
CUNY
USA 9. California Indian Basket Weavers
Spanish Imperialism
and Eighteenth-Century Global Networks
Yve Chavez
University of California
Santa Cruz
USA 10. British Prints between Caricature and Ethnography
Douglas Fordham
University of Virginia
USA Index