Title Art and ocean objects of early modern Eurasia : shells, bodies, and materiality / Anna Grasskamp

Published [Place of publication not identified] : Amsterdam University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource Series Connected histories in the early modern world Connected histories in the early modern world. Contents Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Shell Connections: The Exoticization and Eroticization of Asian Maritime Material Culture -- From Guangzhou to Florence: Parrot Cups as "Actors" -- Layers of Exoticization: Chinese and European Shell Surfaces -- Surfaces and Skins: The European Eroticization of Asian Shells -- Conclusion -- Shell Connections -- 2 Shell Bodies: The Creative Agency of Molluscs across Cultures -- Clever Objects -- Shell Agency -- Clam Creations -- Female Features -- Bird Bodies -- Cultured Connections -- Conclusion 3 Shell Worlds: Maritime Microcosms in EurAsian Art and Material Culture -- Shells in Flux -- Coralscapes -- Conclusion -- 4 Woman with a Shell: Transcultural Exchange, Female Bodies and Maritime Matters -- Women on Shells -- Women in Shells -- Women with Shells -- Women with EurAsian Shells -- Conclusion -- Woman with a Shell -- Conclusion -- Cited Primary and Secondary Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Backcover Summary 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 Analysis Material culture, art, ecology, early modern period, Eurasia Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 2, 2021) Subject Shells -- Collection and preservation -- Europe -- History Shells -- Collection and preservation -- China -- History Material culture -- Eurasia History of art and design styles: c 1400 to c 1600. Material culture. Life sciences: general issues. ART -- History -- Baroque & Rococo. Material culture Shells -- Collection and preservation Non-graphic and electronic art forms. History of art. Maritime history. China Eurasia Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9789048553303 904855330X

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