The Mercantile Effect
Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World During the 17th and 18th Centuries
Published on 30. April 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-909942-30-1 (ISBN)
Description
This lavishly illustrated volume of essays introduces a fascinating array of subjects, each exploring an aspect of the far-reaching "mercantile effect" and its impact across western Asia in the early modern era. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the increased movement of merchants and goods from China to Europe brought desirable commodities to new markets, but also spread ideas, tastes, and technologies across western Asia as never before. Through the newly-established Dutch, English, and French East India companies, as well as much older mercantile networks, commodities including silk, ivory, books, and glazed porcelains were transported both east and west. The Mercantile Effect shows a fascinating array of trade objects and the customs and traditions of traders that brought about a period of intense cultural interchange.
Reviews / Votes
"This elegant volume edited by Sussan Babaie and Melanie Gibson is a pioneer effort. . . superbly illustrated and kaleidoscopically examined."--Newsletter of the Oriental Ceramic SocietyMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
GINGKO
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Picture book
Illustrations
90
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 199 mm
Weight
750 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-909942-30-1 (9781909942301)
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Melanie Gibson | Sussan Babaie
The Mercantile Effect
Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World During 17th 18th Centuries
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10/2017
Gingko Library
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Person
Melanie Gibson is the senior editor of the Gingko Library Arts Series. Sussan Babaie is the Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
Content
Foreword by Melanie Gibson
Introduction by Sussan Babaie The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World
Suet May Lam - Fantasies of the East: 'Shopping' in Early Modern Eurasia
Amy S. Landau - The Armenian Artist Minas and Seventeenth-Century Notions of 'Life-Likeness'
William Kynan-Wilson - 'Painted by the Turcks themselves': Reading Peter Mundy's Ottoman Costume Album in Context
Nicole Kancal-Ferrari - Golden Watches and Precious Textiles: Luxury Goods at the Crimean Khans' Court and the Northern Black Sea Shore
Nancy Um - Aromatics, Stimulants, and their Vessels: The Material Culture and Rites of Merchant Interaction in Eighteenth-Century Mocha
Federica Gigante - Trading Islamic Artworks in Seventeenth-Century Italy: the Case of the Cospi Museum
Anna Ballian - From Genoa to Constantinople: The Silk Industry of Chios
Christos Merantzas - Ottoman Textiles Within an Ecclesiastical Context: Cultural Osmoses in Mainland Greece
Francesco Gusella - Behind the Practice of Partnership: Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Devotional Ivories of West India
Guel Kale - Visual and Embodied Memory of an Ottoman Architect: Travelling on Campaign, Pilgrimage and Trade Routes in the Middle East
Contributors
Introduction by Sussan Babaie The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World
Suet May Lam - Fantasies of the East: 'Shopping' in Early Modern Eurasia
Amy S. Landau - The Armenian Artist Minas and Seventeenth-Century Notions of 'Life-Likeness'
William Kynan-Wilson - 'Painted by the Turcks themselves': Reading Peter Mundy's Ottoman Costume Album in Context
Nicole Kancal-Ferrari - Golden Watches and Precious Textiles: Luxury Goods at the Crimean Khans' Court and the Northern Black Sea Shore
Nancy Um - Aromatics, Stimulants, and their Vessels: The Material Culture and Rites of Merchant Interaction in Eighteenth-Century Mocha
Federica Gigante - Trading Islamic Artworks in Seventeenth-Century Italy: the Case of the Cospi Museum
Anna Ballian - From Genoa to Constantinople: The Silk Industry of Chios
Christos Merantzas - Ottoman Textiles Within an Ecclesiastical Context: Cultural Osmoses in Mainland Greece
Francesco Gusella - Behind the Practice of Partnership: Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Devotional Ivories of West India
Guel Kale - Visual and Embodied Memory of an Ottoman Architect: Travelling on Campaign, Pilgrimage and Trade Routes in the Middle East
Contributors