Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds

Stacey Sloboda is Paul H. Tucker Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA.Michael Yonan is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Missouri, USA.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements1. Mapping Eighteenth-Century Art WorldsStacey Sloboda (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) and Michael Yonan (University of Missouri, USA)2. Flowering Stone: The Aesthetics and Politics of Islamic Jades at the Qing CourtKristina Kleutghen (Washington University, USA)3. The Market for ‘Western’ Paintings in Eighteenth-Century East Asia: A View from the Liulichang Market in BeijingMichele Matteini (New York University, USA)4. Floating Pictures: The European Dimension to Japanese Art During the Eighteenth CenturyTimon Screech (SOAS, University of London, UK)5. A Chinese Canton? Painting the Local in Export ArtYeewan Koon (University of Hong Kong)6. Pedro Cambón’s Asian Objects: A Transpacific Approach to Eighteenth- Century CaliforniaJ. M. Mancini (Maynooth University, Ireland)7. Making it Ours: Religious Art in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Spanish American NewspapersKelly Donahue-Wallace (University of North Texas, USA)8. Tortoiseshell and the Edge of Empire: Artistic Materials and Imperial Politics in Spain and FranceMari-Tere Álvarez (J. Paul Getty Museum, USA) and Charlene Villaseñor Black (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)9. Other Antiquities: Ancients, Moderns, and the Challenge of China in Eighteenth-Century FranceKristel Smentek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)10. Drifting through the Louvre: A Local Guide to the French AcademyHannah Williams (Queen Mary University, UK)11. The Art World of the European Grand TourCarole Paul (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)12. The Imaginative Geographies of Angelo SolimanMichael Yonan (University of Missouri, USA)13. Toward an Itinerant Art History: The Swahili Coast of Eastern AfricaPrita Meier (New York University, USA)14. St. Martin’s Lane in London, Philadelphia, and VizagapatamStacey Sloboda (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)List of ContributorsBibliographyIndex

This wide-ranging collection of essays is a significant and welcome contribution to an art history which takes the interplay of local and the global as central concerns. It provides new case studies and invites new ways of thinking; together these help us to engage with art outside the frameworks of nations or of 'cultures', and to move forward the conversation around a deeper and richer understanding of this key period.