Material cultures of the global eighteenth century [electronic resource] : art, mobility, and change / edited by Wendy Bellion and Kristel Smentek.

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.

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1 online resource ( xviii, 267 pages) : color illustrations.

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Material cultures of the global 18th century

Print version: Material cultures of the global eighteenth century London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023

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February 14, 2023

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, "Things Change", <i>Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware, USA; Kristel Smentek, MIT, USA</i> 1. 'A Sort of Picture or Image of my Self': Amoy Chinqua's Almost Ancestral Portrait of Joseph Collet, <i>Winnie Wong, University of California, Berkeley, USA</i> 2. Shooting for Freedom: Examining the Material World of Self-Emancipated Persons, <i>Tiffany Momon, Sewanee: The University of the South, USA</i> 3. Something Old, Something New: Repurposing and the Production of Ephemeral Festival Architecture in 18th-Century Paris, <i>Matthew Gin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA</i> 4. Botanical Fantasy in Silk: Transformations of A Rococo Floral Design from England to China, <i>Mei Mei Rado, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA</i> 5. Making Marble Edible: Madame de Pompadour, <i>Friendship</i>, and the Multiple Lives of Porcelain, <i>Susan M. Wager, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA</i> 6. The Sovereign Betel in Eighteenth-Century Bengal and Bihar, <i>Zirwat Chowdhury, University of California, Los Angeles, USA</i> 7. Isaiah Thomas's Stamp Acts at the Halifax Gazette: Printers and Tacit Protest in Revolutionary America,<i> Jennifer Y. Chuong, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany</i> 8. Between Art and Nature: The Dauphin's Treasure at the Royal Cabinet of Natural History in Madrid, <i>Tara Zanardi, Hunter College, CUNY, USA</i> 9. California Indian Basket Weavers, Spanish Imperialism, and Eighteenth-Century Global Networks, <i>Yve Chavez, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA</i> 10. British Prints between Caricature and Ethnography, <i>Douglas Fordham, University of Virginia, USA</i> Index.