Glass Exchange Between Europe And China 1550 1800
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Glass Exchange Between Europe And China 1550 800
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Author : EmilyByrne Curtis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Glass Exchange Between Europe And China 1550 800 written by EmilyByrne Curtis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Art categories.
In this study, Emily Byrne Curtis explores as her subject lenses, spectacles, aventurine glass, and windows found in China from the sixteenth century. She traces their technological development back to the glassworks in Murano, Venice, and explores their significance in terms of Venice's commerce with China. Because glassware also figured among the gifts which three papal legates from the Vatican presented to the Kangxi and Yongzheng emperors, the author examines many documents from the archives in Rome and the Vatican; the study therefore touches, to an extent, on the history of the Catholic Church in China. Curtis also discusses in the volume some contemporary Chinese references and verses to European glassware, and in the case of enamel materials, she discloses the pronounced effect their use had upon the decor of Chinese porcelains.
Glass Exchange Between Europe And China 1550 1800
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Author : Emily Byrne Curtis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009
Glass Exchange Between Europe And China 1550 1800 written by Emily Byrne Curtis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
In this study, Emily Byrne Curtis explores lenses, spectacles, and windows found in China from the sixteenth century. Tracing their technological development back to the glassworks in Murano, Venice, she also explores their significance in terms of Venice's commerce with China. Through analysis of gifts and documents from archives in Rome and the Vatican, this study touches to an extent on the history of the Catholic Church in China.
The Substance Of Fiction
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Author : Sophie Volpp
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-28
The Substance Of Fiction written by Sophie Volpp and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Do the portrayals of objects in literary texts represent historical evidence about the material culture of the past? Or are things in books more than things in the world? Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being read as illustrative of historical things. Instead, she argues, fictional objects are often signs of fictionality themselves, calling attention to the nature of the relationship between literature and materiality. Volpp examines a series of objects—a robe, a box and a shell, a telescope, a plate-glass mirror, and a painting—drawn from the canonical works frequently mined for information about late imperial material culture, including the novels The Plum in the Golden Vase and The Story of the Stone as well as the short fiction of Feng Menglong, Ling Mengchu, and Li Yu. She argues that although fictional objects invite readers to think of them as illustrative, in fact, inconsistent and discontinuous representation disconnects the literary object from potential historical analogues. The historical resonances of literary objects illuminate the rhetorical strategies of individual works of fiction and, more broadly, conceptions of fictionality in the Ming and Qing. Rather than offering a transparent lens on the past, fictional objects train the reader to be aware of the fallibility of perception. A deeply insightful analysis of late Ming and Qing texts and reading practices, The Substance of Fiction has important implications for Chinese literary studies, history, and art history, as well as the material turn in the humanities.
Global Gifts
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Author : Zoltán Biedermann
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018
Global Gifts written by Zoltán Biedermann and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.
Goods From The East 1600 1800
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Author : Maxine Berg
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-07-13
Goods From The East 1600 1800 written by Maxine Berg and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-13 with Business & Economics categories.
Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together established scholars as well as new, to provide a full comparative and connective study of this trade.
Rhapsodic Objects
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Author : Yaelle Biro
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-12-20
Rhapsodic Objects written by Yaelle Biro and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-20 with Art categories.
Zirkulation und Nachahmung haben einen wesentlichen Einfluss auf die Gestaltung der materiellen Welt. Die Beiträge des Bandes untersuchen, wie technisches Wissen, immaterielle Wünsche und politische Agenden die Produktion und Rezeption der visuellen und materiellen Kultur im Wandel der Zeit und Orte prägten. Sie gehen den Wanderungen von Kulturgütern unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Entstehungskontexte nach. Mit dem Begriff des „rhapsodischen Objektes" werden dabei die vielschichtigen, nicht immer in einem Zusammenhang stehenden Erzählungen der Objekte angesprochen.
Living The Good Life
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Author : Elif Akçetin
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-10-02
Living The Good Life written by Elif Akçetin and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with History categories.
An exploration how consumer goods in eighteenth-century Qing and Ottoman empires furthered the expansion of social networks, the creation of alliances between rulers and regional elites, and particularly, the expression of elite, urban, and gender identities
Eurasian Matters
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Author : Anna Grasskamp
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-05-03
Eurasian Matters written by Anna Grasskamp and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-03 with History categories.
The volume examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the materiality of objects and their aesthetic meanings. Its approach connects material culture with art history, curation, technologies and practices of making. A central dimension of the case studies collected here is the mobility of objects between Europe and China and the transformations that unfold as a result of their transcultural lives. Many of the objects studied here are relatively unknown or understudied. The stories they recount suggest new ways of thinking about space, cultural geographies and the complex and often contradictory association of power and culture. These studies of transcultural objects can suggest pathways for museum experts by uncovering the multi-layered identities and temporalities of objects that can no longer be labelled as located in single regions. It is also addressed to students of art history, of European and Chinese studies and scholars of consumer culture. « This eagerly awaited volume offers deep and extensive insights into the fast-growing field of material culture studies. Its fresh approach to Eurasian objects and materialities will serve as useful reading for all scholars interested in transcultural and global studies. A very helpful introductory essay. » Sabine du Crest, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, Former Fellow, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
China And The West
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Author : Elisa Ambrosio
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-11-21
China And The West written by Elisa Ambrosio and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-21 with Art categories.
With contributions from outstanding specialists in glass art and East Asian art history, this edited volume opens a cross-cultural dialogue on the hitherto little-studied medium of Chinese reverse glass painting. The first major survey of this form of East Asian art, the volume traces its long history, its local and global diffusion, and its artistic and technical characteristics. Manufactured for export to Europe and for local consumption within China, the fragile artworks studied in this volume constitute a paramount part of Chinese visual culture and attest to the intensive cultural and artistic exchange between China and the West.
Mission To China
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Author : Mary Laven
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-02-17
Mission To China written by Mary Laven and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-17 with History categories.
In the sixteenth century, the vast and sophisticated empire of China lay almost entirely unknown to Western travellers. As global trade expanded, this land of reputedly boundless wealth, pale-faced women, and indecipherable tongues began to feed the fantasies of European merchants and adventurers. The Catholic Church, meanwhile, saw in this great people millions of souls who would be damned unless the Christian message could be brought to them. In this book, Mary Laven tells the extraordinary story of the first Jesuit mission to China. Confronting enormous challenges, the Italian priest Matteo Ricci and a tiny handful of learned companions travelled thousands of miles from southern Europe to the very heart of the empire. In 1601, they gained permission from the notoriously xenophobic Wanli emperor to settle in the fabled Forbidden City. Living among eunuchs and mandarins, wearing the clothes and reading the books of Confucian scholars, Ricci and his associates strove to master the language and culture of their hosts. At the same time, they energetically preached the virtues of Western art and science. What were the motives of the carpenters and boatmen, the mothers, fathers and children who burned their idols and were cleansed with the waters of baptism? Mary Laven tries to answer these questions, as she brings this remote world vividly to life.