{"product_id":"studies-in-eighteenthcentury-culture-9781421424415","title":"Studies in EighteenthCentury Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAddressing the diverse ways in which eighteenth-century contemporaries of different nations and cultures created visual, verbal, and material representations in various media.   Focused on conventions of technology, labor, and tolerance on the one hand, and on artistic intentionality on the other hand, these essays also address the implications of this past in our own research today. The first section, Representing Humans and Technology, opens with the late Srinivas Aravamudan's presidential address, From Enlightenment to Anthropocene. This is followed by a panel of essays on labor and industry, which includes Valentina Tikoff on the overlap between welfare and the technical training of Spanish orphans for warfare; Susan Egenolf on mythological representations of industry; Susan Libby on the Encyclopédie's mechanical representations of sugar production on the plantations; and Jon Klancher on technological manuals. The second section, Inside the Artist's Studio, opens with Shearer West'","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408124092759,"sku":"9781421424415","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421424415.jpg?v=1730501672","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/studies-in-eighteenthcentury-culture-9781421424415","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}