Exotic Switzerland?: Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment
During the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts. Scholars have emphasized this era’s emerging taste for the exotic in order to explain the unprecedented craze for lacquer, porcelain, and textiles that imitated non-Western techniques and iconography. Yet what constituted the exotic during the age of Enlightenment? How was the place of foreign material culture negotiated? And how did it impact European identities? Exotic Switzerland? moves from questions about the nature of exoticism to explore exoticism in practice. The physical relocation of material fragments in European interiors is the core of this volume. Finally, the contributors also explore the rise of disciplines such as anthropology and ethnology through collection, publication, and print culture.
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Exotic Switzerland?: Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment
During the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts. Scholars have emphasized this era’s emerging taste for the exotic in order to explain the unprecedented craze for lacquer, porcelain, and textiles that imitated non-Western techniques and iconography. Yet what constituted the exotic during the age of Enlightenment? How was the place of foreign material culture negotiated? And how did it impact European identities? Exotic Switzerland? moves from questions about the nature of exoticism to explore exoticism in practice. The physical relocation of material fragments in European interiors is the core of this volume. Finally, the contributors also explore the rise of disciplines such as anthropology and ethnology through collection, publication, and print culture.
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Exotic Switzerland?: Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment

Exotic Switzerland?: Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment

Exotic Switzerland?: Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment

Exotic Switzerland?: Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment

Overview

During the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts. Scholars have emphasized this era’s emerging taste for the exotic in order to explain the unprecedented craze for lacquer, porcelain, and textiles that imitated non-Western techniques and iconography. Yet what constituted the exotic during the age of Enlightenment? How was the place of foreign material culture negotiated? And how did it impact European identities? Exotic Switzerland? moves from questions about the nature of exoticism to explore exoticism in practice. The physical relocation of material fragments in European interiors is the core of this volume. Finally, the contributors also explore the rise of disciplines such as anthropology and ethnology through collection, publication, and print culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783035802276
Publisher: Diaphanes
Publication date: 12/11/2020
Pages: 366
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.75(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Noémie Étienne is professor of early modern art history at the University of Bern.


Claire Brizon is doctoral student in art history at the University of Bern.


Chonja Lee is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern.


Étienne Wismer is doctoral student in art history at the University of Bern.

Table of Contents

Introduction Noémie Étienne 11

Becoming Self through the Other: Another History of the Enlightenment Patricia Purtschert 31

Entangled Materiality

Swiss Porcelain and Slavery in the Global Eighteenth Century Meredith Martin 47

Slavery, Exoticism, and Swiss Exceptionalism around 1800 Bernhard C. Schär 63

Tea, Textures, and Techniques: Jean-Étienne Liotard and the Arts of Asia Noémie Étienne 79

Asian Objects in Switzerland: Between Collector's Items and Consumer Goods Claire Brizon 97

Human Trafficking Helen Bieri Thomson 112

Designing before Printing Helen Bieri Thomson 114

Painted Blue: Indian Chintz and the Transfer of Knowledge Claudia Ravazzolo 116

This is not Redemption / Where is Pauline? Jovita dos Santos Pinto 118

Successful Etchings Caroline Guignard 120

Lacquer Travels Hannah Williams 122

Chinoiseries for Fribourg Aristocrats Denis Decrausaz 124

Storing Minute Curiosities Danielle Buyssens 126

A Hybrid Screen between Cultures and Centuries Hans Bjarne Thomsen 128

From Russia with Love Jan Blanc 130

Coat of Arms and Self-Representation Gunnar Dalvit 132

Seashell and "Silver Moor" Bénédicte De Donker 134

The Exotic as a Marketing Strategy Claudia Schmid 136

Descriptive and Outrageous-Travelogue of a Mercenary Karl Schmucki 138

Othering Knowledge

A Genevan in Quest of the American Museum: Pierre-Eugène Du Simitière Dominique Poulot 145

Is Antiquity Exotic? Lionel Pernet Julia Genechesi 161

Printing the Exotic: Forms and Figures of the "Faraway" before the Birth of Anthropology Sara Petrella 177

Learning from Objects: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Zurich's Wasserkirche and its Functions Claudia Rütsche 195

Alexandre-César Chavannes's Anthropology Christian Grosse 210

Turkish, Chinese and Indian Coins in Lausanne Barbara Hiltmann Carine Raemy Tournelle 212

No Coins, No Trade? Barbara Hiltmann Carine Raemy Tournelle 214

Stones through the Ages Nicolas Meisser 216

Words between Worlds: A Kris Brought from Java to Bern Christine Göttler 218

Journal of my Travel in England in 1787 Vincent Fontana 220

Nââkwéta: The Art of Relation Denis Pourawa 222

The Order of the White Man Urte Krass 224

Unnamed Vegetal Riches Meike Knittel 226

The Great Bustard: Between Collection and Migration Michel Sartori 228

A Wood Stick without Qualities? Roland Kaehr 230

Cook and the Cloak Adrienne L. Kaeppler 232

Tiger's Teeth and Human Remains? Chantal Courtois Madeleine Leclair 234

St. Gallen-on-Nile Toni Bürgin 236

Made in Switzerland

Swiss Chintzes: Cotton Threads and Political Patterns Chonja Lee 243

Site of Memory and Projection Surface: Place in Scenic Wallpapers Étienne Wismer 257

The Swiss as European Savages? Ariane Devanthéry 271

The Discovery of the Alps: Between "Science" and Exoticism Simona Boscani Leoni 285

Indiennes for the Swiss Kim Siebenhüner 302

Parasol and Hammock: Prestige Objects for African Elites Roberto Zaug 304

Constantinople, the Ottoman Geneva Estelle Fallet 306

Alpine Performances Patricia Simon 308

"This [book] is the first my Emitius shall read […] And what surprising book is this?" Silvio Corsini 310

Vaudois Peasants Turned Pashas Silvio Corsini 312

Made in China Switzerland Elisa Ambrosio 314

Eating Cheese in Paradise: The Invention of Swiss Indigeneity Vatentina Shasivari 316

Patriotic Botany Joëlle Magnin-Gonze 318

Afterword

The Ruses of Exoticism Alban Bensa 325

Appendix

The Fragile Structures of In-Betweenness: Susan Hefuna Nadia Radwan 335

Authors 337

Table of Figures 339

Bibliography 347

Index 361

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