Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds

Stacey Sloboda is Paul H. Tucker Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. She has held fellowships from the Kress Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Yale Center for British Art, the American Philosophical Society, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Sloboda is the editor of Bloomsbury Academic’s forthcoming A Cultural History of Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment, 1650-1800 and she writes widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art.Michael Yonan is Alan Templeton Endowed Professor of European Art, 1600–1830, University of California, Davis, USA. He has previously taught at Stockholm University in Sweden and the University of Missouri, USA. Yonan was President of Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture from 2012 until 2016 and now serves on the Executive Board of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is the General Editor of the book series Material Culture of Art & Design, which is published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts.

• 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.