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Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art by Dr. Michael Yonan (Professor of Art HistoryAlan Templeton Endowed Chair in European Art, 16001830, University of California at Davis, USA)

While the connected, international character of todays art world is well known, the eighteenth century too had a global art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is the first book to attempt a map of the global art world of the eighteenth century. Fourteen essays from a distinguished group of scholars explore both cross-cultural connections and local specificities of art production and consumption in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The result is an account of a series of interconnected and asymmetrical art worlds that were well developed in the eighteenth century. Capturing the full material diversity of eighteenth-century art, this book considers painting and sculpture alongside far more numerous prints and decorative objects. Analyzing the role of place in the history of eighteenth-century art, it bridges the disciplines of art history and cultural geography, and draws attention away from any one place as a privileged art-historical site, while highlighting places such as Manila, Beijing, Mexico City, and London as significant points on globalized map of the eighteenth-century art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds combines a broad global perspective on the history of art with careful attention to how global artistic concerns intersect with local ones, offering a framework for future studies in global art history.

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This wide-ranging collection of essays is a significant and welcome contribution to an art history which takes the interplay of local and the global as central concerns. It provides new case studies and invites new ways of thinking; together these help us to engage with art outside the frameworks of nations or of 'cultures', and to move forward the conversation around a deeper and richer understanding of this key period. * Craig Clunas, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford, UK *
Ambitious in scope and innovative in approach, this volume is an invaluable contribution to scholarship of the eighteenth century. Fourteen essays by leading scholars demonstrate how the art worlds of the period took shape through exchange and circulation, via the mobility of people and things, and in places as varied as markets and mosques. Readers will encounter a fascinating array of material objects, from French commodes and Mughal cups to holy water fonts in California missions. Lively and insightful, Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds offers a model for understanding the complex interrelations of the local and the global. * Wendy Bellion, Professor and Sewell Biggs Chair in American Art, University of Delaware, USA *
A sophisticated exploration of art-making and its circulation, Eighteenth Century Art Worlds invites new thinking about trade and pleasure, taste and empire. This fascinating collection of essayson artworks and people who traveled through East Asia, the Spanish Americas, the Swahili Coast, and European capitalsfundamentally shifts the conversation on the geography of art. For those who care about the foreign and the global in early modernity this is important reading. * Dana Leibsohn, Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art, Smith College, USA *

About Dr. Michael Yonan (Professor of Art HistoryAlan Templeton Endowed Chair in European Art, 16001830, University of California at Davis, USA)

Stacey Sloboda is Paul H. Tucker Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Michael Yonan is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Missouri, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Mapping Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds Stacey Sloboda (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) and Michael Yonan (University of Missouri, USA) 2. Flowering Stone: The Aesthetics and Politics of Islamic Jades at the Qing Court Kristina Kleutghen (Washington University, USA) 3. The Market for Western Paintings in Eighteenth-Century East Asia: A View from the Liulichang Market in Beijing Michele Matteini (New York University, USA) 4. Floating Pictures: The European Dimension to Japanese Art During the Eighteenth Century Timon Screech (SOAS, University of London, UK) 5. A Chinese Canton? Painting the Local in Export Art Yeewan Koon (University of Hong Kong) 6. Pedro Cambons Asian Objects: A Transpacific Approach to Eighteenth- Century California J. M. Mancini (Maynooth University, Ireland) 7. Making it Ours: Religious Art in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Spanish American Newspapers Kelly Donahue-Wallace (University of North Texas, USA) 8. Tortoiseshell and the Edge of Empire: Artistic Materials and Imperial Politics in Spain and France Mari-Tere Alvarez (J. Paul Getty Museum, USA) and Charlene Villasenor Black (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 9. Other Antiquities: Ancients, Moderns, and the Challenge of China in Eighteenth-Century France Kristel Smentek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) 10. Drifting through the Louvre: A Local Guide to the French Academy Hannah Williams (Queen Mary University, UK) 11. The Art World of the European Grand Tour Carole Paul (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) 12. The Imaginative Geographies of Angelo Soliman Michael Yonan (University of Missouri, USA) 13. Toward an Itinerant Art History: The Swahili Coast of Eastern Africa Prita Meier (New York University, USA) 14. St. Martins Lane in London, Philadelphia, and Vizagapatam Stacey Sloboda (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) List of Contributors Bibliography Index

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NPB9781501335488
9781501335488
1501335480
Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art by Dr. Michael Yonan (Professor of Art HistoryAlan Templeton Endowed Chair in European Art, 16001830, University of California at Davis, USA)
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2019-02-21
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