Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501335488)

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.

Author: Michael Yonan
ISBN-10: 1501335480
ISBN-13: 9781501335488
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Language: English
Published: 02/21/2019
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d