Cultural contact and the making of European art since the age of exploration
By: edited by Mary D. Sheriff.
Contributors: Sheriff, Mary D.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art history
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill [N.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780807833667
Subjects: Art and globalization -- Europe; Art, European -- Themes, motives
Description: ""This groundbreaking book allows the reader to appreciate the complexity and variety of cultural contacts that have shaped not only European art, but also the very idea of Europe." David O' Brien, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign." ""The questions that are engaged in this volume have profound implications for all forms of cultural production and will help transform how we think about and understand art made in Europe and elsewhere. A masterfully conceived and organized collection." Melessa Hyde, University of Florida" "Art historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions, and many general histories, textbooks, and museums of European art are organized around this notion. This volume takes a different approach, suggesting that organization based on national divisions often obscures the processes of cultural appropriation and global exchange that shaped the visual arts in Europe in fundamental ways between 1492 and the early twentieth century." "Essays in Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration analyze distinct zones of contact--between various European states, between Asia and Europe, or between Europe and so-called primitive cultures in Africa, the Americas, and the South Pacific--focusing mainly but not exclusively on painting, drawing, or the decorative arts. Each case foregrounds the centrality of international borrowings and counters conceptions of European art as a "pure" tradition uninfluenced by the artistic forms of other cultures. The contributors analyze the social, cultural, commercial, and political conditions--including tourism, colonialism, religious pilgrimage, trade missions, and scientific voyages--that enabled these exchanges well before the modern age of globalization." "The contributors are Claire Farago, Elisabeth A. Fraser, Julie Hochstrasser, Christopher M. S. Johns, Carol Mavor, Mary D. Sheriff, and Lyneise E. Williams."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cultural contact and the making of European art, 1492-1930 / Mary D. Sheriff; title: On the peripatetic life of objects in the era of globalization / Claire Farago; title: Remapping Dutch art in global perspective : other points of view / Julie Hochstrasser; title: Travel and cultural exchange in enlightenment Rome / Christopher Johns; title: The dislocations of Jean-Etienne Liotard, called the Turkish painter / Mary D. Sheriff; title: Images of uncertainty : Delacroix and the art of nineteenth-century expansionism / Elisabeth A. Fraser; title: Gauguin in black and blue / Carol Mavor; title: A different shade of modernism : difference and distinction in Pedro Figari's representations of black bodies / Lyneise E. Williams.