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Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art

Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art

Yonan, Michael
Sloboda, Stacey

Paperback

Art HistoryChinese ArtGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1501384600
ISBN13: 9781501384608
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: Jan 27 2022
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Longlisted for the 2019 Historians of British Art book prize

While the connected, international character of today's art economy is well known, the 18th century too had global systems of artistic production and consumption. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is the first book to create a global map of the art world of the 18th century.

Fourteen 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.

Capturing 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. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds 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.

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