This edited volume explores the ways in which the object biography or object itinerary approach could be adapted to frame research on animate objects, such as plants and gardens in transcultural contexts.
By treating these animate elements as 'objects' in the manner of artefacts and looking at their individual histories, we gain a more nuanced sense of how data accumulated, how new knowledge developed through printed texts and specimen collections, and how the creators of gardens or landscapes formed their collections. Chapters explore the shifts in meanings when objects from diverse origins meet in new cultural contexts where their new owners create assemblages based on their perception of the world.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, material culture, and cultural geography.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Rich in new research and underpinned by a sophisticated engagement with questions of methodology, this impressive collection ranges widely in time and space. By focussing on the complex transcultural 'itineraries' of plants, images and spaces from the early modern period to the contemporary, each essay provides an individually enlightening case study, while taken together they make a significant contribution to our understanding of phenomena at the intersection of nature and culture."
-- Craig Clunas, FBA, University of Oxford
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrationen
14 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder, 43 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 14 farbige Abbildungen, 43 s/w Abbildungen
14 Halftones, color; 43 Halftones, black and white; 14 Illustrations, color; 43 Illustrations, black and white
Maße
Höhe: 246 mm
Breite: 174 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-032-84649-1 (9781032846491)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Minna Toermae is an honorary senior lecturer research fellow in the history of art at the University of Glasgow and adjunct professor of art history at the University of Helsinki.
Herausgeber*in
University of Glasgow
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction
Minna Toermae
Part I
Chapter 2 Seventeenth-century Dutch ventures in the global rhubarb trade
Anne Gerritsen
Chapter 3 Breadfruit itineraries
Sarah Easterby-Smith
Chapter 4 Rootless Orchids could travel: Transplanting a Chinese plant iconography in the early modern world
Yizhou Wang
Part II
Chapter 5 Concordia Discors: The 'natural' style in Alexander Pope's grotto - from a 'nymphaeum' to a 'mine'
Yue Zhuang
Chapter 6 Questioning 'Japaneseness' in the Broughton House Garden
Minna Toermae
Chapter 7 East Asian inspired gardens in Sweden: Expressions of material culture and cultural encounters
Catharina Nolin
Chapter 8 Monet's Pond in Tokyo: Global circulation of waterscape aesthetics and the politics of ecological curation
Ewa Machotka and Takehiro Watanabe
Bibliography
Index
