Ars Orientalis 39: Globalizing Cultures Art and Mobility in the Eighteenth Century

by Nebhat Avcioglu (editor), Finbarr Barry Flood (Editor)

Published by the Freer - Sackler, The Smithsonian's museum of Asian Art. Globalizing Art and Mobility in the Eighteenth Century Volume 39, guest-edited by Nebahat Avcıoğlu and Finbarr Barry Flood. Framed by an extensive introductory essay, the volume brings together seven articles addressing various aspects of the movement of cultural forms (dress, landscape, and book illustration, among others) in Europe and Asia during the eighteenth century. Authors include Tülay Artan, Chanchal Dadlani, Elisabeth A. Fraser, Anton Schweizer, Avinoam Shalem, Kristel Smentak, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, and Mercedes Volait. Table of Contents Globalizing Art and Mobility in the Eighteenth Century Nebahat Avcıoğlu and Finbarr Barry Flood A Roomful of The Artful Embrace of Mughals and Franks, 1550–1700 Sanjay Subrahmanyam Looking Jean-Etienne Liotard, the Turkish Painter Kristel Smentek Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Princesses as From Chinese to European Porcelain Tülay Artan Translating A Japanese Lacquer Plaque of the Haram of Mecca in the L. A. Mayer Memorial Museum, Jerusalem Anton Schweizer and Avinoam Shalem The “Palais Indiens” Collection of 1774: Representing Mughal Architecture in Late Eighteenth-Century India Chanchal Dadlani “Dressing Turks in the French Manner”: Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s Panorama of the Ottoman Empire Elisabeth A. Fraser History or Theory? French Antiquarianism, Cairene Architecture, and Enlightenment Thinking Mercedes Volait

254 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2010