Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World
Published on 1. July 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-119-21734-3 (ISBN)
Description
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* Calls into question traditional geographies and hierarchies associated with global exchange and challenges outdated center-periphery models
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 27.6 cm
Width: 21 cm
Thickness: 1.3 cm
Weight
780 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-21734-3 (9781119217343)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
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).
Content
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