Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art

by Michael Yonan (Editor), Stacey Sloboda (Editor)

Overview

While the connected, international character of today's art economy is well known, the 18th century too had global systems of artistic production and consumption. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is 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, Beijing, Mexico City, and London as significant points on a global art map. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds combines a broad global perspective on the history of art with careful attention to how global artistic concerns intersect with local ones, offering a framework for studies in global art history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501384608
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/27/2022
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.29(w) x 8.95(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

Michael Yonan is Professor of Art History/Alan Templeton Endowed Chair in European Art, 1600–1830 at the University of California at Davis, USA. His research concentrates on eighteenth-century European art, particularly in Central Europe and Scandinavia; on the decorative arts, and on the theory and practice of material culture studies. With Stacey Sloboda he has co-edited Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Local and Global Geographies of Art for Bloomsbury Academic.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

1. Mapping Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds
Stacey Sloboda (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) and Michael Yonan (University of Missouri, USA)

2. Flowering Stone: The Aesthetics and Politics of Islamic Jades at the Qing Court
Kristina Kleutghen (Washington University, USA)

3. The Market for 'Western' Paintings in Eighteenth-Century East Asia: A View from the Liulichang Market in Beijing
Michele Matteini (New York University, USA)

4. Floating Pictures: The European Dimension to Japanese Art During the Eighteenth Century
Timon Screech (SOAS, University of London, UK)

5. A Chinese Canton? Painting the Local in Export Art
Yeewan Koon (University of Hong Kong)

6. Pedro Cambón's Asian Objects: A Transpacific Approach to Eighteenth- Century California
J. M. Mancini (Maynooth University, Ireland)

7. Making it Ours: Religious Art in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Spanish American Newspapers
Kelly Donahue-Wallace (University of North Texas, USA)

8. Tortoiseshell and the Edge of Empire: Artistic Materials and Imperial Politics in Spain and France
Mari-Tere Álvarez (J. Paul Getty Museum, USA) and Charlene Villaseñor Black (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

9. Other Antiquities: Ancients, Moderns, and the Challenge of China in Eighteenth-Century France
Kristel Smentek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

10. Drifting through the Louvre: A Local Guide to the French Academy
Hannah Williams (Queen Mary University, UK)

11. The Art World of the European Grand Tour
Carole Paul (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

12. The Imaginative Geographies of Angelo Soliman
Michael Yonan (University of Missouri, USA)

13. Toward an Itinerant Art History: The Swahili Coast of Eastern Africa
Prita Meier (New York University, USA)

14. St. Martin's Lane in London, Philadelphia, and Vizagapatam
Stacey Sloboda (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)

List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

This 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

“Ambitious 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, Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds 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

“A sophisticated exploration of art-making and its circulation, Eighteenth Century Art Worlds 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

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