Research Catalog

Title

Reading objects in the contact zone / Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Kerstin Schankweiler, and Anna Sophia Messner, editors.

Publication

• Heidelberg : Heidelberg University Publishing, 2021
• ©2021

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Additional Authors

• Troelenberg, Eva-Maria
• Schankweiler, Kerstin
• Messner, Anna Sophia, $e editor.

Description

x, 257 pages : illustrations (some color), map; 23 cm

Summary

"The cultural effects of globalization constitute one of the most important challenges for the discipline of art history today. The aim of this publication is to take a critical look at art historical narratives. Based on transcultural object biographies, the volume brings together analyses of objects and images that circulate in transcultural contact zones: their histories of origin, circulation and perception slice through space and time. The histories of these objects and images thus demonstrate in exemplary fashion how knowledge and understanding can be generated, communicated or also challenged in cultural contact zones. Hence, the publication is designed as a methodological contribution to a transcultural art and cultural history. It is also conceived as an instrument for teaching and contains a critical-discursive glossary of key-terms that combines theory and practice of transcultural art history"--

Series Statement

Heidelberg studies on transculturality ; 9

Uniform Title

Heidelberg studies on transculturality ; 9.

Subject

• Art and globalization
• Cultural fusion and the arts

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Terms of Use (note)

• Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International $f CC BY-SA 4.0 $2 cc $u https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Contents

On the 'objectscape' of transculturality : an introduction / Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Kerstin Schankweiler and Anna Sophia Messner -- Part I. Economies of photo-objects -- Migratory memories : A suitcase as photo archive / Anna Sophia Messner -- Portrait of space : Lee Miller's photograph as surrealist contact zone / Katharina Upmeyer -- Two-faced : Translations of a portrait of Abdülhamid II / Erin Hyde Nolan -- Transnational encounters : A photograph of Mozaffar al-Din Mirza from an Italian mission to Persia / Elahe Helbig -- Part II. Utility and representation -- Multiple temporalities and the scene of time : A pair of wooden doors at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo / Theodore Van Loan -- Displaying cross-culturality : A water basin from Mosul in Berlin / Maria Sobotka -- Cytherian china / Matthias Weiß -- Part III. Building transcultural modernity -- The Weizmann House : Staging the nation-building process of Israel Sonja Hull -- Critical appropriations of modernity : Michel Écochard's 8 by 8 meter housing grid, Hay Mohammadi, Casablanca / Cristiana Strava -- Part IV. Displaying stories in the contact zone -- Constellations of memory and representation : A lunar sample display in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi / Eva-Maria Troelenberg -- A modernist display at the Barnes Foundation : Curating formalism, primitivism, and democracy / Alison Boyd -- Translating prehistory : Empathy and rock painting facsimiles in the New York Museum of Modern Art / Westrey Page -- A "non-existing existence" in the contact zone : Emily Jacir's stazione (2008-2009) / Lea Mönninghoff -- Part V. Figurative objects, trajectories, and valuations -- Baubo on the pig : Travel across disciplines / Frederika Tevebring -- The global market trajectories of two brass leopards from Benin City (1897-1953) / Felicity Bodenstein -- Double trophy : Gou by Akati Ekplékendorael Kerstin Schankweiler -- Becoming a masterpiece? The Batcham Mask and its display at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich / Rhea Blem -- Part VI. Iconographies of encounter and translation -- The Camposanto in Pisa by Leo von Klenze : The encounter between a classicist and an Islamic artwork / Lisa Heese -- Qajar women and Madonnas? Mother and Child by Muhammad Hasan / Janna Vertheim -- Portrait of Ali Pasha : Cultural mobility on the periphery of empire / Emily Neumeier -- Part VII. Perceptions between image and text -- The arts of science in the contact zone : A satirical picture / Sria Chatterjee -- Art and sociability in colonial India : The Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrapbooks / Tom Young -- Between the visual and the aural : Elias Canetti's The Voices of Marrakesh / Isabella Krayer.

Call Number

N72.G55

ISBN

• 9783968220512
• 396822051X
• 9783968220505
• 3968220501
• 9783968220499
• 3968220498

LCCN

10.17885/heiup.766

OCLC

• on1340678572
• 1340678572
• SCSB-14390456

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries