The mercantile effect : on art and exchange in the Islamicate world during the 17th and 18th centuries / edited by Sussan Babaie and Melanie Gibson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Babaie, Sussan, editor.

Gibson, Melanie, editor.

Series:

Gingko Library art series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic art--History--17th century.

Islamic art.

Islamic art--History--18th century.

History.

Islam.

Islamische Kunst.

Handel.

20.50 Islamic art.

Local Subjects:

Islamic art.

Islam.

Islamische Kunst.

Handel.

20.50 Islamic art.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Gingko Library, 2017.

Summary:

"The ten essays in this volume introduce a fascinating array of subjects, each one exploring an aspect of the far-reaching 'mercantile effect' and it's impact across western Asia in the early modern era. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the increased movement of merchants and merchandise from China to Europe brought desirable exotic commodities to new markets but also spread ideas, tastes and technologies across western Asia as never before."--Jacket.

Contents:

Foreword / by Melanie Gibson

Introduction. The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World / by Sussan Babaie

Fantasies of the East: 'Shopping' in Early Modern Eurasia / Suet May Lam

The Armenian Artist Minas and Seventeenth-Century Notions of 'Life-Likeness' / Amy S. Landau

'Painted by the Turcks themselves': Reading Peter Mundy's Ottoman Costume Album in Context / William Kynan-Wilson

Golden Watches and Precious Textiles: Luxury Goods at the Crimean Khans' Court and the Northern Black Sea Shore / Nicole Kançal-Ferrari

Aromatics, Stimulants, and their Vessels: The Material Culture and Rites of Merchant Interaction in Eighteenth-Century Mocha / Nancy Um

Trading Islamic Artworks in Seventeenth-Century Italy: the Case of the Cospi Museum / Federica Gigante

From Genoa to Constantinople: The Silk Industry of Chios / Anna Ballian

Ottoman Textiles Within an Ecclesiastical Context: Cultural Osmoses in Mainland Greece / Christos Merantzas

Behind the Practice of Partnership: Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Devotional Ivories of West India / Francesco Gusella

Visual and Embodied Memory of an Ottoman Architect: Travelling on Campaign, Pilgrimage and Trade Routes in the Middle East / Gül Kale.

Notes:

The research behind the essays in this book were originally presented at the third Ginko conference held at the Barenboim-Said Akademie, Berlin in November 2016.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781909942103

1909942103

OCLC:

1005692427