Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art Yonan Michael
Longlisted for the 2019 Historians of British Art book prizeWhile the connected, international character of today's art economy is well known, the 18th century too had global systems of artistic…
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Longlisted for the 2019 Historians of British Art book prizeWhile the connected, international character of today's art economy is well known, the 18th century too had global systems of artistic production and consumption. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is the first book to create a global map of the art world of the 18th century.Fourteen case studies from distinguished experts explore both cross-cultural connections and local specificities of art production and consumption in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The result is an account of a series of interconnected and asymmetrical art worlds that were well developed in the 18th century.Capturing the full material diversity of 18th-century art, this book considers painting and sculpture alongside numerous prints and decorative objects. Analyzing the role of place in the history of 18th-century art, it