Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration
Edited by Mary D. Sheriff
240 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 color and 50 b&w illus., notes, bibl., index
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Published: June 2010 -
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Published: June 2010
Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
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Essays here 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 or colonial appropriations 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 of cultural contact--including tourism, colonialism, religious pilgrimage, trade missions, and scientific voyages--that enabled these exchanges well before the modern age of globalization.
Contributors:
Claire Farago, University of Colorado at Boulder
Elisabeth A. Fraser, University of South Florida
Julie Hochstrasser, University of Iowa
Christopher Johns, Vanderbilt University
Carol Mavor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mary D. Sheriff, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lyneise E. Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
About the Author
Mary D. Sheriff is W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor and chair of the art department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her many books include The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Ar and Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France.
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"This book is refreshing for the attention it pays to understudied artists and traditionally undervalued media such as drawing and the decorative arts. . . . Recommended."--Choice
"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."--Melissa Hyde, University of Florida
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