Art, Trade, and Imperialism in Early Modern French India by Liza Oliver
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Publication Date: 2019-12-09
This book focuses on the integration of the Coromandel textile industries with French colonies in India from the founding of the French East India Company in 1664 to its debilitating defeat by the British during the Seven Years' War. Narratives of British trade and colonialism have long dominated histories of India, overshadowing the French East India Company's sphere of influence and its significant integration into the political and cultural worlds of South India. The visual and material cultures of eighteenth-century France and India were deeply connected, and together shaped the century's broader debates about mercantilism, liberalism, and the global trade of goods, ideas, and humans.
Bonaparte et l'Égypte: feu et lumières by Dominique Baudis
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British Orientalisms, 1759-1835 by James Watt
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ISBN: 1108692958
Publication Date: 2019-06-07
James Watt's new study remaps the literary history of British Orientalisms between 1759, the 'year of victories' in the Seven Years' War, and 1835, when T. B. Macaulay published his polemical 'Minute on Indian Education'. It explores the impact of the war on Britons' cultural horizons, and the different ways in which Britons conceived of themselves and their nation as 'open' to the East. Considering the emergence of new forms and styles of writing in the context of an age of empire and revolution, Watt examines how the familiar 'Eastern' fictions of the past were adapted, reworked, and reacted against. In doing so he illuminates the larger cultural conflict which animated a nation debating with itself about its place in the world and relation to its others.
China and the Church by Christopher M. S. Johns
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ISBN: 9780520284654
Publication Date: 2016-02-16
This groundbreaking study examines decorative Chinese works of art and visual culture, known as chinoiserie, in the context of church and state politics, with a particular focus on the Catholic missions' impact on Western attitudes toward China and the Chinese. China and the Church considers the progress of Christianity in China during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, examines authentic works of Chinese art available to the European artists who produced chinoiserie, and explains how the East Asian male body in Western art changed from "normative" depictions to whimsical, feminized grotesques after the collapse of the missionary efforts during the 1720s.
China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought by Simon Kow
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ISBN: 9781138809277
Publication Date: 2016-09-15
This book examines the ideas of China in the works of 3 major thinkers in the early European Enlightenment of the late 17th to early 18th centuries: Pierre Bayle, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and the Baron de Montesquieu. Against the backdrop especially of the Jesuit accounts of China which these philosophers read, the 3 men interpreted imperial China in radically divergent ways: as a tolerant, atheistic monarchy; as an exemplar of human and divine justice; and as an exceptional but nonetheless corrupt despotic state. The book shows how the development of political thought in the early Enlightenment was closely linked to the question of China as a positive or negative model for Europe.
China on Paper by Marcia Reed (Editor); Paola Demattè (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2007-10-15
"The majority of the printed works featured in China on Paper were instigated by European religious missions and trade embassies but shaped their authors' contact with Chinese literati, court officials, and emperors. These books and images targeted different audiences in two distinct cultures and explored a variety of topics, often as much for ideological or political ends as for the education or amusement of readers. These publications were popular, translated into several languages, repeatedly reissued, and influential in Europe. Not only did they enter into debates about good government, biblical chronology, and secular mores but they occasioned the enthusiasm for Chinese-style gardens and chinoiserie decoration in eighteenth-century Europe."--BOOK JACKET.
La Chine à Versailles : Art et diplomatie au XVIIIe siècle by Rochebrune, Marie-Laure de
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ISBN: 9782757208137
Publication Date: 2014
Highlights cultural exchanges and artistic and political relations between France and China in the 18th century. Through the analysis of 150 works, historians study the French collections of Chinese objects, the influence of Chinese motifs on French art, and the resulting vogue of chinoiserie.
Collecting Chinese and Japanese Porcelain in Pre-Revolutionary Paris by Stéphane Castelluccio
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ISBN: 9781606061398
Publication Date: 2013-11-01
This beautifully illustrated volume traces the changing market for Chinese and Japanese porcelain in Paris from the early years of the reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715) through the eighteenth century. The increase in the quantity and variety of East Asian wares imported during this period spurred efforts to record and analyze them, resulting in a profusion of inventories, sales catalogues, and treatises.
Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds by Michael Yonan (Editor); Stacey Sloboda (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781501335495
Publication Date: 2019-02-21
Essays from a distinguished group of scholars explore both cross-cultural connections and local specificities of art production and consumption in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. It draws attention away from any one area as a privileged art-historical site, while highlighting places such as Manila, Beijing, Mexico City, and London as significant connected points
Enlightenment Political Thought and Non-Western Societies by Frederick G. Whelan
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Publication Date: 2009-05-06
Frederick G. Whelan, a leading scholar of Enlightenment political thought, provides an incisive interpretation of key eighteenth and nineteenth century European political thinkers' accounts and assessments of the societies and political institutes of the non-Western world. He gives special attention to ideas about Oriental despotism.
Imagining Qianlong by Florian Knothe; Kristel Smentek; Nicholas Pearce; Pascal-François Bertrand
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Publication Date: 2017-11-01
This publication accompanies an exhibit highlighting four of the magnificent chinoiserie tapestries of Chinese Emperor Qianlong, woven after designs by François Boucher at the famous Beauvais manufactory from 1758-1760. The large and well-preserved textiles form part of the royal French commission by King Louis XV, objects of which were presented to Qianlong in 1766. These celebrated tapestries are joined by another historic set of culturally related depictions in print--The Battles of the Emperor of China. The engravings were ordered by Qianlong, drawn by Jesuit painters at the Imperial Court in Beijing and then printed in Paris 1769-1774. These depictions date to the exact same time period, one that coincides with the high demand for chinoiserie in France.
Mediterranean Encounters: Artists between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839 by Elisabeth A. Fraser
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Publication Date: 2017-01-24
Fraser shows that artists and the works they created in the Mediterranean during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were informed by mutual dependence and reciprocity between European nations and the Ottoman Empire. Voyagers to and from the Ottoman Empire documented their journeys in prints, paintings, and lavishly illustrated travelogues; many of these helped define Europe's self-identified role as heir to Ottoman civilizations and bolstered its presence in the Islamic Mediterranean and beyond.
Orientalism in Louis XIV's France by Nicholas Dew
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Publication Date: 2009-09-28
"Before the Enlightenment, and before the imperialism of the later eighteenth century, how did European readers find out about the varied cultures of Asia? Orientalism in Louis XIV's France presents a history of Oriental studies in seventeenth-century France, mapping the place within the intellectual culture of the period that was given to studies of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Chinese texts, as well as writings on Mughal India. The Orientalist writers studied here produced books that would become sources used throughout the eighteenth century. Nicholas Dew places these scholars in their own context as members of the 'republic of letters' in the age of the scientific revolution and the early Enlightenment."--BOOK JACKET.
Porcelain for Palaces by John Ayers; Oliver R. Impey; John Mallet
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Publication Date: 1990-10-01
Refuge d'Orient: le boudoir turc du château de Fontainebleau de Marie-Antoinette à Joséphine by Cochet, Vincent,
The Turkish Boudoir at Fontainebleau was designed in 1777 for Marie Antoinette by the Rousseau brothers. It draws heavily on the Orient in terms of decorative motifs, furniture styles, and fabrics.
Syllabus from Naby Avcioglu, Hunter College. Offers an extensive bibliography with sections on fashion, artists, decorative arts and related topics.
The Singing Turk by Larry Wolff
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ISBN: 9780804795777
Publication Date: 2016-08-31
While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of works, including The Italian Girl in Algiers. This book explores how these representations of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, the great nemesis of Christian Europe, became so popular in the opera house and what they illustrate about European-Ottoman international relations.
A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism by Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins
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ISBN: 9780199950997
Publication Date: 2013-07-01
Challenging existing narratives of the relationship between China and Europe, this study establishes how modern English identity evolved through strategies of identifying with rather than against China. Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese objects throughout the long eighteenth century, A Taste for China argues that chinoiserie in literature and material culture played a central role in shaping emergent conceptions of taste and subjectivity.
Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture by Madeleine Dobie
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Publication Date: 2010-11-18
In Trading Places, Madeleine Dobie explores the place of the colonial world in the culture of the French Enlightenment. She shows that until a turning point in the late 1760s questions of colonization and slavery occupied a very marginal position in literature, philosophy, and material and visual culture. In an exploration of the causes and modalities of this silence, Dobie traces the displacement of colonial questions onto two more familiar-and less ethically challenging-aspects of Enlightenment thought: exoticization of the Orient and fascination with indigenous Amerindian cultures.
Turquerie by Haydn Williams
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ISBN: 9780500252062
Publication Date: 2014-11-11
This book identifies the key elements of what in our own time has become a popular area of fine art: turquerie. With the arrival of Ottoman embassies and their elaborate entourages at the courts of Europe in the early eighteenth century, a fascination with all things Turkish took hold among royalty and aristocracy.
'Turquerie' and the politics of representation, 1728-1876 by Nebahat Avcioglu
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ISBN: 0754664228
Publication Date: 2011-04-01
Devoted explicitly to the examination of Ottoman/Turkish-inspired architecture in Western Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in this study Nebahat Avcioglu rethinks the question of cultural frontiers not as separations but as a rapport of heterogeneities. Reclaiming turquerie as cross-cultural art from the confines of the inconsequential exoticism it is often reduced to, Avcioglu analyses hitherto neglected constructions, and links them to notions of self-representation and politics.
Unfabling the East: the Enlightenment's encounter with Asia by Jürgen Osterhammel; Robert Savage (Translator)
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ISBN: 9780691172729
Publication Date: 2018-06-12
Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East, from the Ottoman Empire and India to China and Japan. The book challenges the notion that Europe's formative engagement with the non-European world was invariably marred by an imperial gaze and presumptions of Western superiority. Osterhammel demonstrates how Europe discovered its own identity anew by measuring itself against its more senior continent, and how it was only toward the end of this period that cruder forms of Eurocentrism--and condescension toward Asia--prevailed.