HIST 114: Origins of the Global South (HC)

Subtitled Bride of the sun : 500 years Latin America and the Low Countries. This is a museum exhibit catalog accompanied by 18 topical essays.

Including textiles, paintings and decorative arts, Archive of the World offers a lucid alternative to traditional interpretations of art from the so-called New World Exquisitely illustrated with new photography, this stunning book represents the first comprehensive study of LACMA's notable holdings of Spanish American art. Following the arrival of the Spaniards in the Americas in the 15th century, the region developed complex artistic traditions that drew simultaneously on Indigenous, European, Asian and African art.

Examines European art, architecture and design of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the light of the continent's growing engagement with the rest of the world. Case studies span the globe from Asia to the Americas, including ornate altarpieces in the cathedrals of colonial Latin America and the architecture of plantation houses in North America and the Caribbean.

Through a sweeping look at Jesuit activities in Japan, China, Mughul India, and Paraguay, Bailey finds evidence of artistic hybridization as a means of communication and argues in favour of a paradigm of artistic exchange.

The Denver Art Museum held a symposium in 2006 to examine a little-known aspect of globalization in the early modern era. Specialists in the arts and history of Asia and Latin America came from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to present recent research on connections between the two areas. Edited by Denver Art Museum curators Donna Pierce and Ronald Otsuka, this volume presents revised and expanded versions of the papers presented at the symposium.

"With over two hundred illustrations, including some of casta sets and other visual materials that have never been published before, the book draws on a variety of archival sources to provide the most comprehensive study of casta painting to date. Katzew considers how casta painting developed art historically, why race became the subject of a pictorial genre that spanned an entire century, who commissioned and collected the works, and what meanings the works held for contemporary audiences."--BOOK JACKET.

"Goa's churches are the finest Neo-Roman monuments found in Asia. This book describes some of the finest examples of Goan architecture that follow either European models in idiom and style, or subject European forms to an Indian aesthetic."--BOOK JACKET.

In this volume, an international group of scholars present recent research on the movement of goods, art, and artists--and the circulation of ideas and ideologies--that shaped culture in Spanish America from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the first half of the nineteenth century.

Crossing Cultures compiles conference papers examining the effect of globalism on art and art history. It explores the themes of conflict, migration and convergence in the visual, symbolic and artistic exchanges between cultures throughout history. Note in particular Sections 6 and 7 on the Renaissance and the Early Modern periods.

The contributors to this volume analyze visual culture in the context of British and French Colonial activity in the North Atlantic from 1660-1830. It is a response to a noticeable omission in current art history and cultural studies, which have largely ignored the diverse and important body of visual imagery relating to colonialism, Atlantic slavery and the development of racial ideology.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, Portuguese sailors braved international waters to create a global trading network that extended from Europe to Brazil, Africa, the Persian Gulf, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, China and Japan, their naval empire connecting civilizations from all the known continents, transforming commerce and initiating unprecedented cultural exchange. This book explores the artistic achievements that flourished when these sailors exposed new creative techniques and imagery to the world as they transported goods from port to port, presenting approximately 300 objects produced by each of the cultures touched by Portugal's early trade routes.

In its close examination of the relationships - diplomatic, religious and personal - between East and West, this book provides both an important scholarly record of this vibrant period in world history and a document of the works of art and industry that it produced.

"This interdisciplinary volume of essays by eminent scholars engages with the issue of how Europe and Europeans were perceived by observers from various parts of the world during the Early Modern period. It seeks to redress the asymmetry in scholarship whereby European views of its "others" are highlighted at the expense of a near-total silence about the reverse scenario."--BOOK JACKET.

Examining art and visual culture through a series of accessible and thought-provoking case studies, this book provides insights into Europe's relationship with Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East in the 'age of exploration'. Written with the student's perspective in mind, it introduces theoretical topics in a clear and accessible way, foregrounding the close examination of compelling visual examples.

Ming porcelain is widely regarded among the world's finest cultural treasures. From ordinary household items patiently refined for imperial use, porcelain became a dynamic force in domestic consumption in China and a valuable commodity in export trade. This book examines the impact of consumption on the evolution of porcelain and its transformation into a foreign cultural icon.

The volume highlights the unique status of Lisbon as an entrepot for curiosities, luxury goods and wild animals. As the Portuguese trading empire of the fifteenth and sixteenth century expanded sea-routes and networks from West Africa to India and the Far East, non-European cargoes were brought back to Renaissance Lisbon. Many rarities were earmarked for the Portuguese court, but simultaneously exclusive items were readily available for sale on the Rua Nova.

An examination of objects and their uses. Art history is often viewed through cultural or national lenses that define some works as fine art while relegating others to the category of craft. Global Objects points the way to an interconnected history of art, examining a broad array of functional aesthetic objects that transcend geographic and temporal boundaries and challenging preconceived ideas about what is and is not art. Avoiding traditional binaries such as East versus West and fine art versus decorative art, Edward Cooke looks at the production, consumption, and circulation of objects.

Explores the rise of key commodities across the globe, and charts how cosmopolitan consumption emerged as the most distinctive feature of material life after 1500. Goods heightened comfort, redefined leisure and widened access to fashion. See in particular the chapters on needlework arts, fabrics and furs, and cosmopolitan dress. Also available in print.

Editor Daniel Savoy assembles an interdisciplinary group of scholars to evaluate the global discourse on early modern European art. Contributors discuss art in the Andes and in Asia as well as developments in Europe.

Idolizing Mary uses the response to the yellow fever epidemic to open a discussion about the early and profound indigenous veneration of the Virgin Mary. Solari argues that particular Marian icons embodied an ideal suite of precontact numinous qualities, which Maya neophytes reframed for their community's religious needs. Examines prints, paintings, and early modern writings about the Virgin of Itzmal,

In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in three large-format volumes that quickly became collector's items. A half-century later, Harvard University Press and the Du Bois Institute are proud to publish a complete set of ten sumptuous books, including new editions of the original volumes and two additional ones.

Islam in Europe surveys artistic production in the medieval Islamic world and examines the many ways it altered the trajectory of European visual culture. It reveals this interconnectedness through works of art that reflect the contact, influence, and exchange that developed during the medieval period and Renaissance.

This title surveys Jesuits' global artistic enterprise in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, from the foundation of the Society of Jesus in 1540 to its suppression in 1773. Here the Jesuits' extraordinary commitment to the arts — the subject of a groundswell of recent scholarly work — comes spectacularly alive, with full color images of Jesuit buildings, paintings, sculpture, theatrical sets, and music from around the globe.

Soon after the Portuguese opened the first direct sea route from Europe to Asia, they established trading centers in India and Sri Lanka. By the early 1500s, the courts and the cities of Europe had become avid consumers of luxury goods imported from South Asia. This book shows how the trade in exotica spurred the development of an extraordinary hybrid art, at once Indian and Portuguese. Many of the featured objects have never before been properly identified or presented to the public.

Beginning in the 16th century, European outposts in the New World, especially those in New Spain, became a major nexus of the Asia export trade. Craftsmen from Canada to Peru, inspired by the sophisticated designs and advanced techniques of these imported goods, combined Asian styles with local traditions to produce unparalleled furniture, silverwork, textiles, ceramics, lacquer, painting, and architectural ornaments.

This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period. It aims to refocus our understanding of the meaning of the material world in this period by centering on the vibrancy of matter itself. The authors approach "the material" through four themes - glass, feathers, gold paints, and veils - in relation to specific individuals, material milieus, and interpretative communities.

Alistair Paterson has written a comprehensive textbook detailing the millennium of cultural contact between European societies and those of the rest of the world. Beginning with the Norse intersection with indigenous peoples of Greenland, Paterson uses case studies and regional overviews to describe the various patterns by which European groups influenced, overcame, and were resisted by the populations of Africa, the Americas, East Asia, Oceania, and Australia. Based largely on the evidence of archaeology, he is able to detail the unique interactions at many specific points of contact.

In Mimesis Across Empires, Natasha Eaton examines the interactions, attachments, and crossings between the visual cultures of the Mughal and British Empires during the formative period of British imperial rule in India. Eaton explores how the aesthetics of Mughal "vernacular" art and British "realist" art mutually informed one another to create a hybrid visual economy. By tracing the exchange of objects and ideas--between Mughal artists and British collectors, British artists and Indian subjects, and Indian elites and British artists--she shows how Mughal artists influenced British conceptions of their art, their empire, and themselves, even as European art gave Indian painters a new visual vocabulary with which to critique colonial politics and aesthetics.

"In the present volume, Rivero Lake deals with the activities of people from New Spain in Japan and he also describes the reactions to the first Japanese visitors who arrived in Acapulco in ships they themselves had built in their quest for new markets or on their way to the Spanish court and the Holy See. In addition, he shares the opinions of recent, local chroniclers on the possible evidence of their stay." --BOOK JACKET.

Text in Japanese with many illustrations of Namban art in full color.

Centering her study on a vast corpus of early modern textual and visual sources, Russo contends that the subtlety and inventiveness of the myriad of American, Asian, and African creations actually revolutionized European views. In this way, artifacts from outside Europe between 1400 and 1600 played a definitive role in European transformations: the redefinition of the frontier between the "mechanical" and the "liberal" arts and a new conception of the figure of the artist.

This beautifully illustrated book reproduces in full the famous and rarely seen British Museum collection of drawings and watercolors made by John White, who in 1585 accompanied a group of English settlers sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to found a colony on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Sloan's introduction is followed by three specially commissioned essays covering John White himself, the indigenous inhabitants he depicted, and the historical context of his visit. The book explores John White's role as a colonist, surveyor, and artist who not only recorded plants and animals but also provided a window on a now-lost Native American culture and way of life. Oversize, with 185 color illustrations.

Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World presents a collection of 12 original essays that examine the circulation of objects across global regions and cultures from the 16th to 18th centuries. Features essays that represents an extremely wide cultural, geographical, and material scope while offering new insights into the specificity of early modern exchange and inspires broader questions about the disciplinary boundaries and frameworks of art history, visual culture, and material culture.

In the early modern age, pearls became potent symbols of imperial supremacy. Through use of the pearl, European courtly art articulated ideas about imperial expansion, European superiority, and control over nature, all of which played key roles in the political circles surrounding the Spanish Crown. Also available in print.

The significance of the communications revolution involving printmaking was profound. Less a part of the standard narrative is recognition of the frequency with which the widespread dissemination of printed works also occurred beyond the borders of Europe. Within a decade of the invention of the Gutenberg press, European prints began to move globally. Numerous prints traveled to areas as varied as Turkey, India, Iran, Ethiopia, China, Japan and the Americas, where they were taken by missionaries, artists, merchants and diplomats.

How did the extensive cultural exchange that took place between the Old and New Worlds in the sixteenth century affect the artistic practice and discussions of art at that time? With contributions from distinguished Renaissance art historians, this volume reevaluates the Eurocentrism of Italian Renaissance art history, by envisioning how the history of Renaissance art would look if cultural interaction and the conditions of reception were to become the primary focus. Scholars such as Anthony Cutler, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Martin Kemp, Cecelia Klein, and Claudia Lazzaro look at the function, reception, and influence of specific kinds of images and other manufactured objects as they were disseminated around the globe, particularly between Renaissance Italy and Latin America.

Focusing on the prolific trade, transport and consumption of Chinese silk and porcelain, and Japanese lacquer abroad between 1500 and 1644, this groundbreaking book will show how the material cultures of late Ming China and Momoyama/Early Edo Japan on one side of the globe, and Western Europe and the New World on the other, became linked for the first time, through an exchange of luxury Asian manufactured goods for currency. It offers new insight into these multilayered long-distance commercial networks, which resulted in an unprecedented creation of material culture that reflected influences of both East and West.

Tales Things Tell offers new perspectives on histories of connectivity between Africa, Asia, and Europe in the period before the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century. Finbarr Barry Flood and Beate Fricke present six illuminating case studies from the sixth to the thirteenth centuries to show how portable objects mediated the mobility of concepts, iconographies, and techniques. The case studies range from metalwork to stone reliefs, manuscript paintings, and objects using natural materials such as coconut and rock crystal.

Mexico's churches and conventos display a unique blend of European and native styles. Missionary Mendicant friars arrived in New Spain shortly after Cortes's conquest of the Aztec empire in 1521 and immediately related their own European visual arts styles to the expectations of native Indians. Right from the beginning the friars conceived of conventos as a special architectural theater in which to carry out their proselytizing. Over 400 conventos were established in Mexico between 1526 and 1600, and more still in New Mexico in the century following, all built and decorated by native Indian artisans who became masters of European techniques and styles even as they added their own influence. The author argues that these magnificent structures are as much part of the artistic patrimony of American Indians as their pre-Conquest temples. Mexican Indians, in fact, adapted European motifs to their own pictorial traditions and thus made a unique contribution to the worldwide spread of the Italian Renaissance.

Over the past 500 years, African people have experienced and interpreted their relationships with Europeans in particular ways. From the late fifteenth century, contacts between the first Portuguese merchants and indigenous peoples of the West and Central African coasts marked the beginning of contact. See the first two chapters in this book for examples of African people's reactions in art.

Superbly illustrated with color plates featuring images of the Virgin Mary in her many apparitions,this volume is an invaluable source for art historians as well as those interested in material culture and religion in Peru. Art historian Carol Damian explores how indigenous artisans of post-conquest Peru combined European styles of painting and iconography with pre-Columbian art,lore,and tradition to create the colonial Virgin of the Andes.

Visions of Savage Paradise is the first major book-length study of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published in nearly seventy years. Eckhout, who was court painter to the colonial governor of Dutch Brazil, created life-size paintings of Amerindians, Africans, and Brazilians of mixed race in support of the governor’s project to document the people and natural history of the colony. In this study, Rebecca Parker Brienen provides a detailed analysis of Eckhout’s works, framing them with discussions of both their colonial context and contemporary artistic practices in the Dutch republic. Also available in Print from Bryn Mawr.

This museum exhibition catalog seeks to document the connections the Jamestown colony had with the wider world, using art work in particular. Sections of interest for this class project include:
Cultural Encounters pages 101-110
The Image of the Other pages 159-167
The Ottomans as a World Power pages 185-193
Sub-Saharan African Kingdoms pages 221-228