Art, Commerce and Colonialism 16001800

Informationen zum Autor Emma Barker is Senior Lecturer in Art History at The Open University Klappentext The book examines how increasing engagement with the rest of the world transformed European art, architecture and design. It considers how commercial activity and colonial ventures gave rise to new and diverse forms of visual and material culture across the globe. Drawing on a wide range of recent scholarship, it offers a new perspective that challenges Eurocentric approaches.The book re-examines the field of Renaissance art history by exploring the art of this era in the light of global connections. It considers the movement of objects, ideas and technologies and its significance for European art and material culture, analysing images through the lens of cultural encounter and conflict. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Emma Barker1 From Iberia to the Americas: Hispanic art of the colonial era - Piers Baker-Bates2 The Golden Age revisited: Dutch art in global perspective - Emma Barker3 Creative interactions: Chinoiserie in eighteenth-century Britain - Clare Taylor4 Transatlantic architecture: classicism, colonialism and race - Elizabeth McKellarConclusion - Emma BarkerIndex

Product details

• Authors: Ms. Emma Mckellar Barker, Ms Emma Barker, Emma Barker
• Assisted by: Ms. Emma Barker (Editor), Professor Elizabeth McKellar (Editor), Emma Barker (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.11.2017
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history
• EAN: 9781526122926
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2292-6
• Pages: 200
• Series: Art and its Global Histories; Art and its Global Histories
• Subjects: Globalization, Europe, ART / History / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, trade, Luxury, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Art, Urbanism, Colonialism, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Chinoiserie, Colonialism and imperialism, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, C 1600 To C 1700, Slavery, The arts: general topics, ART / History / European / Renaissance, plantations, exoticism, Missions, Art; Trade; Colonialism; Missions; Exoticism; Luxury; Chinoiserie; Slavery; Plantations; Urbanism