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Art, trade, and cultural mediation in Asia, 1600-1950

Reyes, Raquel A. G., editor

Overview

This Palgrave Pivot explores the social and cultural impact of global trade at a micro-level from around 1600 to 1950. Bringing together the collaborative skills of cultural, social, economic, and art historians, it examines how the diffusion of trade, goods and objects affected people's everyday lives. The authors tell several stories: of the role played by a host of intermediaries - such as apothecaries, artisans and missionaries who facilitated the process; of objects such as Japanese export lacquer-ware and paintings; of how diverse artistic influences came to be expressed in colonial church architecture in the Philippines; of revolutionary changes wrought on quotidian tastes and preferences, as shown in the interior decoration of private homes in the Dutch East Indies; and of transformations in the smoking and drinking habits of Southeast Asians. The chapters consider the conditions from which emerged new forms of artistic production and transfer, fresh cultural interpretations, and expanded markets for goods, objects and images.

• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Subject: Decorative arts Southeast Asia History. / Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Social aspects Southeast Asia History. / Southeast Asia Commerce History. / Southeast Asia Social conditions. / Southeast Asia Social life and customs.
• ISBN: 9781137572363, 1137572361

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
NK1052.A77 2019	1	BOOK	ARTS