| Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art Contributor(s): Yonan, Michael (Editor), Sloboda, Stacey (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1501335480 ISBN-13: 9781501335488 Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts OUR PRICE: $173.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Asian - Chinese - Art | History - General - History | Modern - 18th Century |
| Dewey: 701.03 |
| LCCN: 2018058735 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.70 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: While the connected, international character of today's art world is well known, the eighteenth century too had a global art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is the first book to attempt a map of the global art world of the eighteenth century. Fourteen essays from a distinguished group of scholars 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 eighteenth century. Capturing the full material diversity of eighteenth-century art, this book considers painting and sculpture alongside far more numerous prints and decorative objects. Analyzing the role of place in the history of eighteenth-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 globalized map of the eighteenth-century art world. 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 future studies in global art history. |