{"product_id":"eighteenthcentury-art-worlds-9781501384608","title":"EighteenthCentury Art Worlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile the connected, international character of today's art economy is well known, the 18th century too had global systems of artistic production and consumption. \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Art Worlds \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book to create a global map of the art world of the 18th century.Fourteen case studies from distinguished experts explore both cross-cultural connections and local specificities of art production and consumption in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The result is an account of a series of interconnected and asymmetrical art worlds that were well developed in the 18th century.Capturing the full material diversity of 18th-century art, this book considers painting and sculpture alongside numerous prints and decorative objects. Analyzing the role of place in the history of 18th-century art, it bridges the disciplines of art history and cultural geography, and draws attention away from any one place as a privileged art-historical site, while highlighting places such as Manila,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis wide-ranging collection of essays is a significant and welcome contribution to an art history which takes the interplay of local and the global as central concerns. It provides new case studies and invites new ways of thinking; together these help us to engage with art outside the frameworks of nations or of 'cultures', and to move forward the conversation around a deeper and richer understanding of this key period. * Craig Clunas, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford, UK *\u003cbr\u003eAmbitious in scope and innovative in approach, this volume is an invaluable contribution to scholarship of the eighteenth century. Fourteen essays by leading scholars demonstrate how the “art worlds” of the period took shape through exchange and circulation, via the mobility of people and things, and in places as varied as markets and mosques. Readers will encounter a fascinating array of material objects, from French commodes and Mughal cups to holy water fonts in California missions. Lively and insightful, \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Art Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e offers a model for understanding the complex interrelations of the local and the global. * Wendy Bellion, Professor and Sewell Biggs Chair in American Art, University of Delaware, USA *\u003cbr\u003eA sophisticated exploration of art-making and its circulation, \u003ci\u003eEighteenth Century Art Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e invites new thinking about trade and pleasure, taste and empire. This fascinating collection of essays—on artworks and people who traveled through East Asia, the Spanish Americas, the Swahili Coast, and European capitals—fundamentally shifts the conversation on the geography of art. For those who care about the foreign and the global in early modernity this is important reading. * Dana Leibsohn, Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art, Smith College, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Acknowledgements  1. Mapping Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds \u003ci\u003eStacey Sloboda (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) and Michael Yonan (University of Missouri, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  2. Flowering Stone: The Aesthetics and Politics of Islamic Jades at the Qing Court \u003ci\u003eKristina Kleutghen (Washington University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  3. The Market for ‘Western’ Paintings in Eighteenth-Century East Asia: A View from the Liulichang Market in Beijing \u003ci\u003eMichele Matteini (New York University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  4. Floating Pictures: The European Dimension to Japanese Art During the Eighteenth Century \u003ci\u003eTimon Screech (SOAS, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  5. A Chinese Canton? Painting the Local in Export Art \u003ci\u003eYeewan Koon (University of Hong Kong)\u003c\/i\u003e  6. Pedro Cambón’s Asian Objects: A Transpacific Approach to Eighteenth- Century California \u003ci\u003eJ. M. Mancini (Maynooth University, Ireland)\u003c\/i\u003e  7. Making it Ours: Religious Art in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Spanish American Newspapers \u003ci\u003eKelly Donahue-Wallace (University of North Texas, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  8. Tortoiseshell and the Edge of Empire: Artistic Materials and Imperial Politics in Spain and France \u003ci\u003eMari-Tere Álvarez (J. Paul Getty Museum, USA) and Charlene Villaseñor Black (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  9. Other Antiquities: Ancients, Moderns, and the Challenge of China in Eighteenth-Century France \u003ci\u003eKristel Smentek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  10. Drifting through the Louvre: A Local Guide to the French Academy \u003ci\u003eHannah Williams (Queen Mary University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  11. The Art World of the European Grand Tour \u003ci\u003eCarole Paul (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  12. The Imaginative Geographies of Angelo Soliman \u003ci\u003eMichael Yonan (University of Missouri, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  13. Toward an Itinerant Art History: The Swahili Coast of Eastern Africa \u003ci\u003ePrita Meier (New York University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  14. St. Martin’s Lane in London, Philadelphia, and Vizagapatam \u003ci\u003eStacey Sloboda (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  List of Contributors Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409315438935,"sku":"9781501384608","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501384608.jpg?v=1730506391","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eighteenthcentury-art-worlds-9781501384608","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}