EurAsian Matters China, Europe, and the Transcultural Object, 1600-1800 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Grasskamp, Anna (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Juneja, Monica (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Transcultural Research - Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context,
• Subjects: China-History.; Europe-History.; Fine arts.; Aesthetics.; History of China.; European History.; Fine Arts.

The volume examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the materiality of objects and their aesthetic meanings. Its approach connects material culture with art history, curation, technologies and practices of making. A central dimension of the case studies collected here is the mobility...

Table of Contents:

• I Introduction
• EurAsian Matters: An Introduction
• II Objects Easily Forgotten
• Around the Globe: The Material Culture of Cantonese Round Tables in High-Qing China
• Unknown Transcultural Objects: Turned Ivory Works by the European Rose Engine Lathe in the Eighteenth-Century Qing Court
• Transcultural Lenses: Wrapping the Foreignness for Sale in the History of Lenses
• III Transcultural Objectifications of Nature
• From La Flèche to Beijing: The Transcultural Moment of Jesuit Garden Spaces
• Domesticating the Global and Materializing the Unknown: A Study of the Album of Beasts at the Qianlong Court
• IV Ceramic Matters
• Delftware and the Domestication of Chinese Porcelain
• A Global Crayfish: The Transcultural Travels of a Chinese Ming Dynasty Ceramic Ewer
• The Reception and Value of Chinese Porcelain in Habsburg Spain
• V Postscripts
• Transcultural Objects, Movements, and Bodies
• Looking INTO the Transcultural Object. .