Title: Objects in motion in the early modern world /
Authors: Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973-; Martin, Meredith
Year: 2016
Subjects: Art and globalization.; Art and society; Art, Modern Themes, motives.; Art and globalization; Art and society; Art, Modern Themes, motives; Gesellschaft; Globalisierung; Kulturaustausch.; Kunst; Kunsthandwerk; Kunstmarkt.
Contents: 1. Exotica on the move: birds of paradise in early modern Holland / Claudia Swan. -- 2.The Persian madonna and child: commodified gifts between diplomacy and armed struggle / Sinem Arcak Casale. -- 3. Mirror reflections: Louis XIV, Phra Narai, and the material culture of kingship / Meredith Martin. -- 4. An imperial Mughal tent and mobile sovereignty in eighteenth-century Jodhpur / Zirwat Chowdhury. -- 5. History in pictures: translating the Codex Mendoza / Daniela Bleichmar. -- 6. Chinese porcelain and Muslim port cities: mercantile materiality in coastal East Africa / Sandy Prita Meier. -- 7. Chairs, writing tables and chests: Indian Ocean furniture and the postures of commercial documentation in coastal Yemen, 1700-40 / Nancy Um. -- 8. Metamorphosis at the Mughal court / Jessica Keating. -- 9.Transporting India: the Gentil Album and Mughal manuscript culture / Chanchal Dadlani. -- 10. Peepboxes, society and visuality in early modern China / Kristina Kleutghen. -- 11. From Byōbu to Biombo: the transformation of the Japanese folding screen in colonial Mexico / Sofía Sanabrais. -- 12. Nails, necklaces and curiosities: scenes of exchange in Bougainville's Tahiti / Mary Sheriff.