Rhapsodic Objects: Art, Agency, and Materiality (1700–2000)

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Rhapsodic Objects

Art, Agency, and Materiality (1700–2000)

Edited by: Yaelle Biro and Noemie Etienne
Funded by: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

Volume 7 in the series Contact Zones

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110757668

Overview
Contents

About this book

Circulation and imitation are key factors in shaping the material world. The authors in this volume explore how technical knowledge, immaterial desires, and political agendas impact the production and consumption of visual and material culture across times and places. Their essays map multidirectional transactions for cultural goods in which source countries can be positioned at the center. Rhapsodic – literally to stitch or weave songs – paired with objects – from thrown against – intertwines complexity and action. Rhapsodic objects thus beckons to the layered narratives of the objects themselves, their making, and their reception over time. The concept further underlines their potential to express creativity, generate emotion, and reveal histories – often tainted with violence.

Author / Editor information

Yaëlle Biro, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Noémie Étienne, Universität Bern.

Topics

Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Content Open Access Download PDF	5
Introduction Yaëlle Biro and Noémie Étienne Open Access Download PDF	7
Part 1: Interlaced Patterns
Wandering Designs The Repossession of the “Oriental” Carpet and Its Imaginary Dorothy Armstrong Open Access Download PDF	17
The Art of Printed Textiles Selecting Motifs in the Eighteenth Century Aziza Gril-Mariotte Open Access Download PDF	41
Chintzes as Printed Matter and Their Entanglement within the Transatlantic Slave Trade around 1800 Chonja Lee Open Access Download PDF	57
Part 2: Embedded Relationships
Interpretations of Central African Taste in European Trade Cloth of the 1890s James Green Open Access Download PDF	79
The Picturesque in Peking European Decoration at the Qing Court Helen Glaister Open Access Download PDF	99
Cultural Intersections and Identity in Algeria on the Eve of the French Invasion The Case of the Bey Palace in Constantine Rémi Labrusse and Bernadette Nadia Saou-Dufrêne Open Access Download PDF	125
Part 3: Crafted Identities
“What Is Colonial Art? And How Can It Be Modern?” Design and Modernity in France and Morocco, 1925 Ashley V. Miller Open Access Download PDF	149
Crafting Colonial Power Weaving and Empire in France and French West Africa Victoria L. Rovine Open Access Download PDF	171
A World of Knowledge Recreating Lakota Horse Effigies Thomas Grillot Open Access Download PDF	195
Frida Kahlo’s Circulating Crafts Her Painting and Her Identities Gail Levin Open Access Download PDF	211
Authors Open Access Download PDF	233
Picture Credits Open Access Download PDF	236

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Art historians, historians, curators
Pages
- Main content: 236
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 88
Keywords: Objects; cultural transfer; arts and crafts; textile.

eBook

Published: December 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110757668

Hardcover

Published: January 4, 2022
ISBN: 9783110656640