Artistic responses to travel in the Western tradition

Contents

Introduction / Sarah J. Lippert -- Part 1 : Travel of great import: culture, class, and politics -- Dramatizing the encounter: the performative body in John Webber's 'A Man of the Sandwich Islands, Dancing' / Monica Anke Hahn -- The humor of circumstance: caricature and the foreign tour of the British middle class / Alice J. Walkiewicz -- Tours of the Charleston Renaissance and the visual construction of southern charm: a comparison of local versus visiting artists / Chad Wesley Airhart -- Part 2 : Travel on a smaller scale: voyages in the familiar -- Representing the "El" and the subway: urban travel as ordinary icon in New York City, 1900-30 / Elsie Heung -- The Palio of Siena: a journey through time / Anna Piperato -- Quantified drift / Stephen Cartwright -- Part 3 : Imaginary travel and travel of the mind -- Itinerant Hadrian and imperial patronage belonging to all the world / Gerald A. Hess -- Giorgio Vasari's planetary ceiling: a Neoplatonic voyage / Liana de Girolami Cheney -- Going back to the beginning of things: wishful travel and the ancient origins of the arts in France / Sarah J. Lippert -- Part 4 : Trail blazers: travel for the brave -- No typical tourist: photographer Zaida Ben-Yusuf in Meiji, Japan / Gillian Greenhill Hannum -- Beyond the European Grand Tour: the travels and related writings of Marguerite Thompson Zorach / Efram Burk -- Women in high places: Georgia O'Keeffe and Julia Codesido in the Peruvian Andes / Caroline L. Gillaspie -- Conclusion / Sarah J. Lippert.