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    Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century: Art, Mobility, and Change

    Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century by Bellion, Wendy; Smentek, Kristel;

    Art, Mobility, and Change

    Series: Material Culture of Art and Design;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Visual Arts
    • Date of Publication 9 January 2025
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781350259072
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages288 pages
    • Size 232x158x18 mm
    • Weight 634 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 10 color & 68 bw illus
    • 678

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    From porcelain to betel leaves, Chumash hats to natural history cabinets, this book examines how objects embody imperialism, knowledge, and resistance in various ways. While every era witnesses change, the eighteenth century experienced artistic, economic, and demographic transformations that exerted unique pressures on material cultures around the world. Featuring ten essays from leading historians of British, Spanish, and West African art, this global survey brings a fresh approach to the study of eighteenth century material culture, foregrounding cultural connections, translation, and movement over static and rooted perspectives.

    Each chapter takes a diverse scholarly approach, identifying a specific historical example of early modern transnationalism, and engages with a number of dynamic fields of enquiry and practice, ranging from material culture and ecocriticism, through to global history and decolonization. Underpinned by case studies which feature objects and practices that span Asia, Europe, Australasia Africa and North America, the book expands beyond Eurocentric perspectives to discover the mobile, transcultural nature of eighteenth-century art worlds.

    Ranging from California to China, Bengal to Britain, this timely book 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. Going beyond Eurocentric perspectives, it reveals the innate mobility and transculturality of eighteenth-century art worlds; charting new directions for global art history and cultural history of the period.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Illustrations
    Notes on Contributors
    Acknowledgements

    Introduction, "Things Change", Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware, USA; Kristel Smentek, MIT, USA

    1. 'A Sort of Picture or Image of my Self': Amoy Chinqua's Almost Ancestral Portrait of Joseph Collet, Winnie Wong, University of California, Berkeley, USA
    2. Shooting for Freedom: Examining the Material World of Self-Emancipated Persons, Tiffany Momon, Sewanee: The University of the South, USA
    3. Something Old, Something New: Repurposing and the Production of Ephemeral Festival Architecture in 18th-Century Paris, Matthew Gin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
    4. Botanical Fantasy in Silk: Transformations of A Rococo Floral Design from England to China, Mei Mei Rado, Bard Graduate Center, USA
    5. Making Marble Edible: Madame de Pompadour, Friendship, and the Multiple Lives of Porcelain, Susan M. Wager, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA
    6. The Sovereign Betel in Eighteenth-Century Bengal and Bihar, Zirwat Chowdhury, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
    7. Isaiah Thomas's Stamp Acts at the Halifax Gazette: Printers and Tacit Protest in Revolutionary America, Jennifer Y. Chuong, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA
    8. Between Art and Nature: The Dauphin's Treasure at the Royal Cabinet of Natural History in Madrid, Tara Zanardi, Hunter College, CUNY, USA
    9. California Indian Basket Weavers, Spanish Imperialism, and Eighteenth-Century Global Networks, Yve Chavez, University of Oklahoma, USA
    10. British Prints between Caricature and Ethnography, Douglas Fordham, University of Virginia, USA

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