Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia: Shells, Bodies, and Materiality

During the early modern period, objects of maritime material culture were removed from their places of origin...
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Author: Anna K. Grasskamp
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia: Shells, Bodies, and Materiality by K. Grasskamp, Anna

Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia: Shells, Bodies, and Materiality

€320,54

Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia: Shells, Bodies, and Materiality

€320,54
Author: Anna K. Grasskamp
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
During the early modern period, objects of maritime material culture were removed from their places of origin and traded, collected and displayed worldwide. Focusing on shells and pearls exchanged within local and global networks, this monograph compares and connects Asian, in particular Chinese, and European practices of oceanic exploitation in the framework of a transcultural history of art with an understanding of maritime material culture as gendered. Perceiving the ocean as mother of all things, as womb and birthplace, Chinese and European artists and collectors exoticized and eroticized shells' shapes and surfaces. Defining China and Europe as spaces entangled with South and Southeast Asian sites of knowledge production, source and supply between 1500 and 1700, the book understands oceanic goods and maritime networks as transcending and subverting territorial and topographical boundaries. It also links the study of globally connected port cities to local ecologies of oceanic exploitation and creative practices.

Author: Anna K. Grasskamp
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 11/21/2021
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.69h x 6.69w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9789463721158

About the Author
Anna Grasskamp is Lecturer in Art History at the University of St Andrews. She co-edited EurAsian Matters: China, Europe, and the Transcultural Object, 1600-1800 (2018) and is the author of Objects in Frames: Displaying Foreign Collectibles in Early Modern China and Europe (2019).

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