Seeing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World (Hardcover, New Ed)

What were the possibilities and limits of vision in the early modern world? How did political expansion, cross-cultural trade, scientific exploration and discrete religious practices require new ways of rendering the unknown visible, and of making what was seen knowable? Drawing upon experiences forged in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, Seeing Across Cultures argues that distinctive ways of habituating the eyes in the early modern period had epistemic consequences: in the realm of politics, daily practice and the imaginary. The essays here consider prints and panoramas, sculpted works of stone and corn pith cane - and their physical presence in the lived world - calling attention to the materiality and sensuality of visual experience. Anchored in writings on art history and visual culture, Seeing Across Cultures also engages histories of transcultural encounters and vision.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
Release date:	May 2012
First published:	2012
Editors:	Jeanette Favrot Peterson
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	302
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-4094-1189-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
LSN:	1-4094-1189-3
Barcode:	9781409411895

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