The itineraries of art
Subtitle: topographies of artistic mobility in Europe and Asia
By: edited by Karin Gludovatz, Juliane Noth, Joachim Rees
Contributors: Gludovatz, Karin, 1970- editor; Noth, Juliane, editor; Rees, Joachim, editor; DFG-Forschungsgruppe Transkulturelle Verhandlungsräume von Kunst
Series: Berliner Schriften zur Kunst; Berliner Schriften zur Kunst
Publisher: Wilhelm Fink
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Paderborn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9783770557950
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: European Art; Congresses; Oriental influences; Asian Art; European influences; Trade routes; History
Notes: Papers presented at "The itineraries of art: topographies of artistic mobility in Europe and Asia, 1500-1900," the second annual conference of the German Research Foundation Research Unit 1703 "Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art," held May 23-25, 2013 at the Kunsthistorisches Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin, and at the Museum für Asiatische Kunst Berlin.

Includes 24 color plates (pages 289-312).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Juliane Noth, Joachim Rees; title: I. Art histories of the route : transcultural approaches: When routes entered culture : histories and politics of transcultural thinking (Annexe: Martin Beck, half modern, half something else) / Christian Kravagna. Tracking the routes of vision in early modern Eurasia / Monica Juneja. Why was there no Chinese painting of Marco Polo? / Eugene Y. Wang; title: II. Symbolic itineraries and topographies : framing roads and routes: Geo-narrative in seventeenth-century China / Elizabeth Kindall. Historicity and the route : remarks on the relations between art and anthropology in the illustrations of the travel account of James Cook's third expedition / Sophie Annette Kranen. Itinerary and painting lineage : ten thousand miles along the Yangzi River in seventeenth-Century China / Julia Orell. Seen from a boat : travel and cultural history in Huang Binhong's landscape paintings / Juliane Noth; title: III. Crossroads as contact zones : artefacts of interaction: Harbouring expectations : the littoral as contact zone in the visual arts of Japan and the Netherlands around 1600 / Joachim Rees, Nora Usanov-Geissler. Transcultural ballast : Netherlandish tiles as vehicles of exchange / Evelyn Reitz. Suspected prospects : art, topography, and identity in the Portsmouth area around 1800 / Ulrike Boskamp.