Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration

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Название: Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration

Редактор: Коллектив авторов

Издательство: The University of North Carolina Press

Год: 2010

Количество страниц: 236

Язык: English

Формат: pdf

Размер: 21.64 Mb

Essays here analyze distinct zones of contact--between various European states, between Asia and Europe, or between Europe and so-called primitive cultures in Africa, the Americas, and the South Pacific--focusing mainly but not exclusively on painting, drawing, or the decorative arts. Each case foregrounds the centrality of international borrowings or colonial appropriations and counters conceptions of European art as a "pure" tradition uninfluenced by the artistic forms of other cultures. The contributors analyze the social, cultural, commercial, and political conditions of cultural contact--including tourism, colonialism, religious pilgrimage, trade missions, and scientific voyages--that enabled these exchanges well before the modern age of globalization.