{"product_id":"9781350259034","title":"Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century Art, Mobility, and Change","description":"\u003ch3\u003eMaterial Culture of Art and Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eMaterial Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eArt, Mobility, and Change\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWendy Bellion | Michael Yonan | Kristel Smentek\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eArt \/ History \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThings change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their earliest functions, locations, and appearances. While every era witnesses change, the eighteenth century experienced artistic, economic, and demographic transformations that exerted unique pressures on material cultures around the world. Locating material objects at the heart of such phenomena, \u003ci\u003eMaterial Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e expands beyond Eurocentric perspectives to discover the mobile, transcultural nature of eighteenth-century art worlds. From porcelain to betel leaves, Chumash hats to natural history cabinets, this book examines how objects embody imperialism, knowledge, and resistance in various ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy embracing things both elite and everyday, this volume investigates physical and technological manipulations of objects while attending to the human agents who shaped them in an era of accelerating global contact and conquest. Featuring ten essays, the volume foregrounds diverse scholarly approaches to chart new directions for art history and cultural history. Ranging from California to China, Bengal to Britain, \u003ci\u003eMaterial Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the transformations within and between artistic media, follows natural and human-made things as they migrate across territories, and reveals how objects catalyzed change in the transoceanic worlds of the early modern period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendy Bellion is Sewell C. Biggs Chair in American Art History and Associate Dean for the Humanities at the University of Delaware, USA. Her research focuses on North American art and the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eCitizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and \u003ci\u003eIconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment\u003c\/i\u003e (2019).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKristel Smentek\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Her research engages eighteenth-century European graphic and decorative arts in their transcultural contexts. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), co-editor of \u003ci\u003eDare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), and co-curator of the accompanying exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e23 February 2023\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Visual Arts\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350259034\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e288\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e27.36\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51936213074060,"sku":"9781350259034","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_b0a4a34d-30fd-4699-8cae-8d0d9602087f.jpg?v=1786015028","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350259034","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}