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Claire Farago, University of Colorado at BoulderJulie Hochstrasser, University of IowaChristopher Johns, Vanderbilt UniversityCarol Mavor, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillArt historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions. This volume takes a different approach, suggesting instead that a history of art based on national divisions often obscures the processes of cultural appropriation and global exchange that shaped the visual arts of Europe in fundamental ways between 1492 and the early twentieth century. 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 BoulderElisabeth A. Fraser, University of South FloridaJulie Hochstrasser, University of IowaChristopher Johns, Vanderbilt UniversityCarol Mavor, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMary D. Sheriff, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillLyneise E. Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration
bettie allison rand lectures in art history
Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration Edited by Mary D. Sheriff the university of north carolina press chapel hill
The publication of books in this series is made possible through the generous support of william g. rand in memory of bettie allison rand.
©2010 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved. Designed by Courtney Leigh Baker and set in Whitman by Rebecca Evans. Manufactured in the United States of America. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cultural contact and the making of European art since the age of exploration / edited by Mary D. Sheriff.—1st ed. p. cm.—(Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art history) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8078-3366-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Art and globalization—Europe. 2. Art, European— Themes, motives. i. Sheriff, Mary D. n72.g55c85 2010 709.4—dc22 2009049095 14 13 12 11 10 5 4 3 2 1
Contents Acknowledgments
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Introduction Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art, 1492–1930 mary d. sheriff
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On The Peripatetic Life of Objects in the Era of Globalization claire farago
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Remapping Dutch Art in Global Perspective Other Points of View julie hochstrasser
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Travel and Cultural Exchange in Enlightenment Rome christopher m. s. johns
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The Dislocations of Jean-Etienne Liotard, Called the Turkish Painter mary d. sheriff
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Images of Uncertainty Delacroix and the Art of Nineteenth-Century Expansionism elisabeth a. fraser
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Gauguin in Black and Blue carol mavo