Material cultures of the global eighteenth century: art, mobility and change

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 a...

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Weitere Verfasser: Bellion, Wendy 1969- (HerausgeberIn), Smentek, Kristel (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2023
Schriftenreihe:Bloomsbury collections
Material culture of art and design
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Zusammenfassung: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 Centuryilluminates 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.
Beschreibung:"Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century: Art, Mobility, and Change evolved from a panel organized for the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA) conference "Art and Architecture in the Long Eighteenth Century: HECAA at 25," held at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) in November 2018." (Acknowledgments)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 270 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781350259065
9781350259041
DOI:10.5040/9781350259065

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