Material cultures of the global eighteenth century: art, mobility, and change

Uittreksel

"Things change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their original functions, locations, and appearances. Locating material objects at the heart of the artistic, economic, and demographic tranformations of the eighteenth century, this interdisciplinary volume expands beyond Eurocentric perspectives to discover the mobile, transcultural nature of eighteenth-century art worlds. Across ten diverse essays, each with a distinct scholarly approach, the volume charts new directions for art history and cultural history. Ranging from California to China, Bengal to Britain, the chapters illuminate the transformations within and between artistic media, follow natural and human-made things as they migrate across territories, and reveal how objects catalyzed change in the transoceanic worlds of the early modern period. From porcelain to betel leaves, Chumash hats to natural history cabinets, this path-breaking volume examines how objects embody imperialism, knowledge, and resistance in various ways."--Back cover.

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(from table of contents) Introduction: Things change / Wendy Bellion and Kristel Smentek -- 'A Sort of Picture or Image of my Self': Amoy Chin Qua's Almost Ancestral Portrait of Joseph Collet / Winnie Wong -- Shooting for Freedom: Examining the Material World of Self-Emancipated Persons / Tiffany Momon -- Something Old, Something New: Repurposing and the Production of Ephemeral Festival Architecture in eighteenth-century Paris / Matthew Gin -- Botanical Fantasy in Silk: Transformations of a Rococo Floral Design from England to China / Mei Mei Rado -- Making Marble Edible: Madame de Pompadour, "Friendship," and the Multiple Lives of Porcelain / Susan M. Wager -- The Sovereign Betel in Eighteenth-Century Bengal and Bihar / Zirwat Chowdhury -- Isaiah Thomas's Stamp Acts at the "Halifax Gazette": Printers and Tacit Protest in Revolutionary America / Jennifer Y. Chuong -- Between Art and Nature: The Dauphin's Treasure at the Royal Cabinet of Natural History in Madrid / Tara Zanardi -- California Indian Basket Weavers, Spanish Imperialism, and Eighteenth-Century Global Networks / Yve Chavez -- British Prints between Caricature and Ethnography / Douglas Fordham.