Plants and Gardens as Artefacts in Transcultural Contexts

Between Asia and Europe
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-84649-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 253 mm x 179 mm, Gewicht: 542 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Art History

This edited volume explores the ways in which the object biography or object itinerary approach could be adapted to frame research on animate objects, such as plants and gardens in transcultural contexts.

By treating these animate elements as ‘objects’ in the manner of artefacts and looking at their individual histories, we gain a more nuanced sense of how data accumulated, how new knowledge developed through printed texts and specimen collections, and how the creators of gardens or landscapes formed their collections. Chapters explore the shifts in meanings when objects from diverse origins meet in new cultural contexts where their new owners create assemblages based on their perception of the world.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, material culture, and cultural geography.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Törmä, Minna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Ausstellungskataloge, Museumsführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Natur & Tiere (Stillleben, Landschaften etc.)
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Chapter 1 Introduction

Minna Törmä

Part I

Chapter 2 Seventeenth-century Dutch ventures in the global rhubarb trade

Anne Gerritsen

Chapter 3 Breadfruit itineraries

Sarah Easterby-Smith

Chapter 4 Rootless Orchids could travel: Transplanting a Chinese plant iconography in the early modern world

Yizhou Wang

Part II

Chapter 5 Concordia Discors: The ‘natural’ style in Alexander Pope’s grotto – from a ‘nymphaeum’ to a ‘mine’

Yue Zhuang

Chapter 6 Questioning ‘Japaneseness’ in the Broughton House Garden

Minna Törmä

Chapter 7 East Asian inspired gardens in Sweden: Expressions of material culture and cultural encounters

Catharina Nolin

Chapter 8 Monet’s Pond in Tokyo: Global circulation of waterscape aesthetics and the politics of ecological curation

Ewa Machotka and Takehiro Watanabe

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Minna Törmä is an honorary senior lecturer research fellow in the history of art at the University of Glasgow and adjunct professor of art history at the University of Helsinki.