Art, Trade, and Cultural Mediation in Asia, 1600–1950 [electronic resource] /
Reyes, Raquel A. G.editor.
This Palgrave Pivot explores the social and cultural impact of global trade at a micro-level from around 1600 to 1950. Bringing together the collaborative skills of cultural, social, economic, and art historians, it examines how the diffusion of trade, goods and objects affected people’s everyday lives. The authors tell several stories: of the role played by a host of intermediaries - such as apothecaries, artisans and missionaries who facilitated the process; of objects such as Japanese export lacquer-ware and paintings; of how diverse artistic influences came to be expressed in colonial church architecture in the Philippines; of revolutionary changes wrought on quotidian tastes and preferences, as shown in the interior decoration of private homes in the Dutch East Indies; and of transformations in the smoking and drinking habits of Southeast Asians. The chapters consider the conditions from which emerged new forms of artistic production and transfer, fresh cultural interpretations, and expanded markets for goods, objects and images. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction; Raquel A. G. Reyes -- Japanese Export Lacquer and Global Art History: An Art of Mediation in Circulation; Thomas DaCosta Kaufman -- Paradise in Stone: Representations of New World Plants and Animals on Spanish Colonial Churches in the Philippines; Raquel A. G. Reyes -- Betel, tobacco and beverages in Southeast Asia; William Gervase Clarence-Smith -- Domestic Interiors in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Batavia; Michael North.
This Palgrave Pivot explores the social and cultural impact of global trade at a micro-level from around 1600 to 1950. Bringing together the collaborative skills of cultural, social, economic, and art historians, it examines how the diffusion of trade, goods and objects affected people’s everyday lives. The authors tell several stories: of the role played by a host of intermediaries - such as apothecaries, artisans and missionaries who facilitated the process; of objects such as Japanese export lacquer-ware and paintings; of how diverse artistic influences came to be expressed in colonial church architecture in the Philippines; of revolutionary changes wrought on quotidian tastes and preferences, as shown in the interior decoration of private homes in the Dutch East Indies; and of transformations in the smoking and drinking habits of Southeast Asians. The chapters consider the conditions from which emerged new forms of artistic production and transfer, fresh cultural interpretations, and expanded markets for goods, objects and images. .
Asia-History.
Civilization-History.
Economic history.
Social history.
Asian History.
Cultural History.
Economic History.
Social History.