Publication : “Art, commerce and colonialism 1600–1800”.

BARKER Emma (dir.), Art, commerce and colonialism 1600–1800, Manchester, Manchester university press, 2017, 200 p.

Présentation de l’éditeur :

The book examines how increasing engagement with the rest of the world transformed European art, architecture and design. It considers how commercial activity and colonial ventures gave rise to new and diverse forms of visual and material culture across the globe. Drawing on a wide range of recent scholarship, it offers a new perspective that challenges Eurocentric approaches.

Emma Barker is Senior Lecturer in Art History at The Open University.

Table des matières :

Introduction – Emma Barker
1 From Iberia to the Americas: Hispanic art of the colonial era – Piers Baker-Bates
2 The Golden Age revisited: Dutch art in global perspective – Emma Barker
3 Creative interactions: Chinoiserie in eighteenth-century Britain – Clare Taylor
4 Transatlantic architecture: classicism, colonialism and race – Elizabeth McKellar
Conclusion – Emma Barker
Index

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