Networks and practices of connoisseurship in the global eighteenth century /

The 18th century was the age of the connoisseur. It was also an era of an expanding global consciousness born of accelerating trade and imperial conquest. This volume puts into dialogue the consolidation of connoisseurship as an empirical mode of artistic analysis in Europe and Asia and the increasi...

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Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Kobi, Valérie (Editor), Smentek, Kristel (Editor), Lee, Chonja, 1980- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The 18th century was the age of the connoisseur. It was also an era of an expanding global consciousness born of accelerating trade and imperial conquest. This volume puts into dialogue the consolidation of connoisseurship as an empirical mode of artistic analysis in Europe and Asia and the increasing exposure to different modes of artmaking facilitated by local and global networks over the course of the long 18th century. Focusing on exchanges between India, Japan, China and Europe, the contributors to this volume examine the complex and nuanced impacts on connoisseurial practice of encounters with artworks from different regions of the globe, the international networks that made those encounters possible, and the intricate transactions through which connoisseurial knowledge of art was generated.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 248 pages) : illustrations, some color
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9783110985085
311098508X