{"product_id":"9781501384608","title":"Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds : Global and Local Geographies of Art","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eEighteenth-Century Art Worlds\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2019 Historians of British Art book prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile the connected, international character of today's art economy is well known, the 18th century too had global systems of artistic production and consumption. \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Art Worlds \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book to create a global map of the art world of the 18th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFourteen case studies from distinguished experts explore both cross-cultural connections and local specificities of art production and consumption in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The result is an account of a series of interconnected and asymmetrical art worlds that were well developed in the 18th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCapturing the full material diversity of 18th-century art, this book considers painting and sculpture alongside numerous prints and decorative objects. Analyzing the role of place in the history of 18th-century art, it bridges the disciplines of art history and cultural geography, and draws attention away from any one place as a privileged art-historical site, while highlighting places such as Manila, Beijing, Mexico City, and London as significant points on a global art map. \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Art Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e combines a broad global perspective on the history of art with careful attention to how global artistic concerns intersect with local ones, offering a framework for studies in global art history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This wide-ranging collection of essays is a significant and welcome contribution to an art history which takes the interplay of local and the global as central concerns. It provides new case studies and invites new ways of thinking; together these help us to engage with art outside the frameworks of nations or of 'cultures', and to move forward the conversation around a deeper and richer understanding of this key period.” —\u003ci\u003eCraig Clunas, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ambitious in scope and innovative in approach, this volume is an invaluable contribution to scholarship of the eighteenth century. Fourteen essays by leading scholars demonstrate how the “art worlds” of the period took shape through exchange and circulation, via the mobility of people and things, and in places as varied as markets and mosques. Readers will encounter a fascinating array of material objects, from French commodes and Mughal cups to holy water fonts in California missions. Lively and insightful, \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Art Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e offers a model for understanding the complex interrelations of the local and the global.” —\u003ci\u003eWendy Bellion, Professor and Sewell Biggs Chair in American Art, University of Delaware, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A sophisticated exploration of art-making and its circulation, \u003ci\u003eEighteenth Century Art Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e invites new thinking about trade and pleasure, taste and empire. This fascinating collection of essays-on artworks and people who traveled through East Asia, the Spanish Americas, the Swahili Coast, and European capitals-fundamentally shifts the conversation on the geography of art. For those who care about the foreign and the global in early modernity this is important reading.” —\u003ci\u003eDana Leibsohn, Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art, Smith College, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501384608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Visual Arts","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40829492101326,"sku":"9781501384608","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_fed11fa6-6052-40ed-88d2-60275c07d315.jpg?v=1643275844","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501384608","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}