Exotic switzerland? : looking outward in the age of enlightenment / edited by Claire Brizon, 3 others.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brizon, Claire, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exoticism in art.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Diaphanes, [2020]

Summary:

During the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts.Scholars have emphasized this era's emerging taste for the exotic in order to explain the unprecedented craze for lacquer, porcelain, and textiles that imitated non-Western techniques.

Contents:

Exotic Switzerland?

Introduction

Becoming Self through the Other: Another History of the Enlightenment

Swiss Porcelain and Slavery in the Global Eighteenth Century

Slavery, Exoticism, and Swiss Exceptionalism around 1800

Tea, Textures, and Techniques: Jean-Étienne Liotard and the Arts of Asia

Asian Objects in Switzerland: Between Collector's Items and Consumer Goods

Human Trafficking

A Genevan in Quest of the American Museum: Pierre-Eugène Du Simitière

Is Antiquity Exotic?

Printing the Exotic: Forms and Figures of the "Faraway" before the Birth of Anthropology

Learning from Objects: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Zurich's Wasserkirche and its Functions

Alexandre-César Chavannes's Anthropology

Swiss Chintzes: Cotton Threads and Political Patterns

Site of Memory and Projection Surface: Place in Scenic Wallpapers

The Swiss as European Savages?

The Discovery of the Alps: Between "Science" and Exoticism

Indiennes for the Swiss

Afterword: The Ruses of Exoticism

The Fragile Structures of In-Betweenness: Susan Hefuna

Authors

Table of Figures

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

3-0358-0306-4

OCLC:

1202478915