From porcelain to betel leaves, Chumash hats to natural history cabinets, this book examines how objects embody imperialism, knowledge, and resistance in various ways. While every era witnesses change, the eighteenth century experienced artistic, economic, and demographic transformations that exerted unique pressures on material cultures around the world. Featuring ten essays from leading historians of British, Spanish, and West African art, this global survey brings a fresh approach to the study of eighteenth century material culture, foregrounding cultural connections, translation, and movement over static and rooted perspectives.
Each chapter takes a diverse scholarly approach, identifying a specific historical example of early modern transnationalism, and engages with a number of dynamic fields of enquiry and practice, ranging from material culture and ecocriticism, through to global history and decolonization. Underpinned by case studies which feature objects and practices that span Asia, Europe, Australasia Africa and North America, the book expands beyond Eurocentric perspectives to discover the mobile, transcultural nature of eighteenth-century art worlds.
Ranging from California to China, Bengal to Britain, this timely book illuminates the transformations within and between artistic media, follows natural and human-made things as they migrate across territories, and reveals how objects catalyzed change in the transoceanic worlds of the early modern period. Going beyond Eurocentric perspectives, it reveals the innate mobility and transculturality of eighteenth-century art worlds; charting new directions for global art history and cultural history of the period.
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With ten vibrant studies that treat a striking array of media across an ambitious geographic scope, this volume charts some of the liveliest directions in todays eighteenth-century art history, which has decisively embraced the everyday object and the dynamism of change as a generative critical lens. * Nancy Um, Associate Director for Research and Knowledge Creation, Getty Research Institute, USA * A new history of eighteenth-century art is being written in books like Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century. Ten highly original, meticulously researched, and conceptually exciting essays encourage us to think expansively about material cultures role in shaping global history. * Stacey Sloboda, Paul H. Tucker Professor of Art History, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA * This important volume puts material culture and its protean meaning-making at the center of eighteenth-century art history. Bellion's and Smentek's lucid introduction, and the innovative scholars they bring into conversation, are united by their admirable attentiveness to objects and voices from around the globe. * Amy Freund, Associate Professor and The Kleinheinz Family Endowed Chair in Art History, Southern Methodist University, USA *
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Collects ground-breaking essays by a diverse roster of art historians to showcase innovative research on understudied objects that illuminate the global material worlds of eighteenth-century art.
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Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Things Change, Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware, USA;
Kristel Smentek, MIT, USA
1. A Sort of Picture or Image of my Self: Amoy Chinquas Almost Ancestral
Portrait of Joseph Collet, Winnie Wong, University of California, Berkeley,
USA
2. Shooting for Freedom: Examining the Material World of Self-Emancipated
Persons, Tiffany Momon, Sewanee: The University of the South, USA
3. Something Old, Something New: Repurposing and the Production of Ephemeral
Festival Architecture in 18th-Century Paris, Matthew Gin, University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, USA
4. Botanical Fantasy in Silk: Transformations of A Rococo Floral Design from
England to China, Mei Mei Rado, Bard Graduate Center, USA
5. Making Marble Edible: Madame de Pompadour, Friendship, and the Multiple
Lives of Porcelain, Susan M. Wager, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA
6. The Sovereign Betel in Eighteenth-Century Bengal and Bihar, Zirwat
Chowdhury, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
7. Isaiah Thomass Stamp Acts at the Halifax Gazette: Printers and Tacit
Protest in Revolutionary America, Jennifer Y. Chuong, University of Illinois,
Urbana Champaign, USA
8. Between Art and Nature: The Dauphins Treasure at the Royal Cabinet of
Natural History in Madrid, Tara Zanardi, Hunter College, CUNY, USA
9. California Indian Basket Weavers, Spanish Imperialism, and
Eighteenth-Century Global Networks, Yve Chavez, University of Oklahoma, USA
10. British Prints between Caricature and Ethnography, Douglas Fordham,
University of Virginia, USA
Index
Wendy Bellion is Sewell C. Biggs Chair in American Art History and Associate Dean for the Humanities at the University of Delaware, USA. Her research focuses on North American art and the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is the author of Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America (2011) and Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment (2019).
Kristel Smentek is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Her research engages eighteenth-century European graphic and decorative arts in their transcultural contexts. She is the author of Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe (2014), co-editor of Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment (2022), and co-curator of the accompanying exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums.
