Networks and Practices of Connoisseurship in the Global Eighteenth Century

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Author: Valerie Kobi, Kristel Smentek, Chonja Lee (eds.)The 18th century was the age of the connoisseur. It was also an era of an expanding global consciousness born of acceleratin g trade and imperial conquest. This volume puts into dialogue the consolidation of connoisseurship as an empirical mode of artistic analysis in Europe and Asia and the increasing exposure to different modes of art-making facilitated by local and global networks over the course of the long 18th century. Focusing on exchanges between India, Japan, China and Europe, the contributions in this book examine the complex and nuanced impacts on connoisseurial practice of encounters with artworks from different regions of the globe, the international networks that made those encounters possible, and the intricate transactions through which connoisseurial knowledge of art was generated.ISBN 9783110996951. De Gruyter. pb. 256 pages. 75 colour ills. 24 x 17 cm.available to order Show more