Bleichmar / Mancall Collecting Across Cultures

Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8122-0496-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: The Early Modern Americas

Authored by historians, art historians, and historians of science working in the United States, Europe, and South America, each of the fourteen essays in Collecting Across Cultures explores a specific aspect of the history of collecting, collections, or collectors in the early modern period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bleichmar, Daniela

Mancall, Peter C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Foreword
—Malcolm Baker

Introduction
—Daniela Bleichmar and Peter C. Mancall

I. COLLECTING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
Chapter 1. Seeing the World in a Room: Looking at Exotica in Early Modern Collections
—Daniela Bleichmar
Chapter 2. Collecting Global Icons: The Case of the Exotic Parasol
—Benjamin Schmidt
Chapter 3. Ancient Europe and Native Americans: A Comparative Reflection on the Roots of Antiquarianism
—Alain Schnapp

II. COLLECTING AND THE FORMATION OF GLOBAL NETWORKS
Chapter 4. Aztec Regalia and the Reformation of Display
—Carina L. Johnson
Chapter 5. Dead Natures or Still Lifes? Science, Art, and Collecting in the Spanish Baroque
—José Ramón Marcaida and Juan Pimentel
Chapter 6. Crying a Muck: Collecting, Domesticity, and Anomie in Seventeenth-Century Banten and England
—Robert Batchelor
Chapter 7. Collecting and Translating Knowledge Across Cultures: Capuchin Missionary Images of Early Modern Central Africa, 1650-1750
—Cécile Fromont
Chapter 8. European Wonders at the Court of Siam
—Sarah Benson

III. COLLECTING PEOPLE
Chapter 9. Collecting and Accounting: Representing Slaves as Commodities in Jamaica, 1674-1784
—Trevor Burnard
Chapter 10. ''Collecting Americans'': The Anglo-American Experience from Cabot to NAGPRA
—Peter C. Mancall

IV. EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS OF AMERICANA IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES
Chapter 11. Spanish Collections of Americana in the Late Eighteenth Century
—Paz Cabello Carro
Chapter 12. Martínez Compañón and His Illustrated ''Museum''
—Lisa Trever and Joanne Pillsbury
Chapter 13. Europe Rediscovers Latin America: Collecting Artifacts and Views in the First Decades of the Nineteenth Century
—Pascal Riviale
Chapter 14. Image and Experience in the Land of Nopal and Maguey: Collecting and Portraying Mexico in Two Nineteenth-Century French Albums
—Megan E. O'Neil

Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments

Über Autor(innen)

Daniela Bleichmar is Associate Professor of Art History and History at the University of Southern California. Peter C. Mancall is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.