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Subject(s)

• Art and globalization—History—18th century [Browse]
• Art and society—History—18th century [Browse]
• Material culture—History—18th century [Browse]

Editor

• Bellion, Wendy [Browse]
• Smentek, Kristel [Browse]

Series

Material culture of art and design. [More in this series]

Summary note

"Things change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their earliest functions, locations, and appearances. While every era witnesses change, the eighteenth century experienced artistic, economic, and demographic transformations that exerted unique pressures on material cultures around the world. Locating material objects at the heart of such phenomena, Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century expands beyond Eurocentric perspectives to discover the mobile, transcultural nature of eighteenth-century art worlds. From porcelain to betel leaves, Chumash hats to natural history cabinets, this book examines how objects embody imperialism, knowledge, and resistance in various ways. By embracing things both elite and everyday, this volume investigates physical and technological manipulations of objects while attending to the human agents who shaped them in an era of accelerating global contact and conquest. Featuring ten essays, the volume foregrounds diverse scholarly approaches to chart new directions for art history and cultural history. Ranging from California to China, Bengal to Britain, Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century illuminates the transformations within and between artistic media, follows natural and human-made things as they migrate across territories, and reveals how objects catalyzed change in the transoceanic worlds of the early modern period"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 'A Sort of Picture or Image of my Self': Amoy Chinqua'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 18th-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.

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ISBN

• 9781350259034 (hardcover)
• 1350259039 (hardcover)
• 9781350259072 (paperback)
• 1350259071 (paperback)

LCCN

2022048228

OCLC

1348335531

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