Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds

While the connected, international character of today's art world is well known, the eighteenth century too had a global art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is the first book to attempt a map of the global art world of the eighteenth century. Fourteen essays from a distinguished group of scholars 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 eighteenth century. Capturing the full material diversity of eighteenth-century art, this book considers painting and sculpture alongside far more numerous prints and decorative objects. Analyzing the role of place in the history of eighteenth-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 globalized map of the eighteenth-century art world. 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 future studies in global art history.

Stacey Sloboda is Paul H. Tucker Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Michael Yonan is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Missouri, USA.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Mapping Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds Stacey Sloboda (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) and Michael Yonan (University of Missouri, USA) 2. Flowering Stone: The Aesthetics and Politics of Islamic Jades at the Qing Court Kristina Kleutghen (Washington University, USA) 3. The Market for 'Western' Paintings in Eighteenth-Century East Asia: A View from the Liulichang Market in Beijing Michele Matteini (New York University, USA) 4. Floating Pictures: The European Dimension to Japanese Art During the Eighteenth Century Timon Screech (SOAS, University of London, UK) 5. A Chinese Canton? Painting the Local in Export Art Yeewan Koon (University of Hong Kong) 6. Pedro Cambón's Asian Objects: A Transpacific Approach to Eighteenth- Century California J. M. Mancini (Maynooth University, Ireland) 7. Making it Ours: Religious Art in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Spanish American Newspapers Kelly Donahue-Wallace (University of North Texas, USA) 8. Tortoiseshell and the Edge of Empire: Artistic Materials and Imperial Politics in Spain and France Mari-Tere Álvarez (J. Paul Getty Museum, USA) and Charlene Villaseñor Black (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 9. Other Antiquities: Ancients, Moderns, and the Challenge of China in Eighteenth-Century France Kristel Smentek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) 10. Drifting through the Louvre: A Local Guide to the French Academy Hannah Williams (Queen Mary University, UK) 11. The Art World of the European Grand Tour Carole Paul (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) 12. The Imaginative Geographies of Angelo Soliman Michael Yonan (University of Missouri, USA) 13. Toward an Itinerant Art History: The Swahili Coast of Eastern Africa Prita Meier (New York University, USA) 14. St. Martin's Lane in London, Philadelphia, and Vizagapatam Stacey Sloboda (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) List of Contributors Bibliography Index