EurAsian Matters China, Europe, and the Transcultural Object, 1600-1800 /

The volume examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the materiality of objects and their aesthetic meanings. Its approach connects material culture with art history, curation, technologies and practices of making. A central dimension of the case studies collected here is the mobility...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Transcultural Research - Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context,
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ISBN:9783319756417
ISSN:2191-656X
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Table of Contents:
  • I Introduction
  • EurAsian Matters: An Introduction
  • II Objects Easily Forgotten
  • Around the Globe: The Material Culture of Cantonese Round Tables in High-Qing China
  • Unknown Transcultural Objects: Turned Ivory Works by the European Rose Engine Lathe in the Eighteenth-Century Qing Court
  • Transcultural Lenses: Wrapping the Foreignness for Sale in the History of Lenses
  • III Transcultural Objectifications of Nature
  • From La Flèche to Beijing: The Transcultural Moment of Jesuit Garden Spaces
  • Domesticating the Global and Materializing the Unknown: A Study of the Album of Beasts at the Qianlong Court
  • IV Ceramic Matters
  • Delftware and the Domestication of Chinese Porcelain
  • A Global Crayfish: The Transcultural Travels of a Chinese Ming Dynasty Ceramic Ewer
  • The Reception and Value of Chinese Porcelain in Habsburg Spain
  • V Postscripts
  • Transcultural Objects, Movements, and Bodies
  • Looking INTO the Transcultural Object. .