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Title The nomadic object : the challenge of world for early modern religious art / edited by Christine Göttler, Mia M. Mochizuki
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xxxvi, 613 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Intersections ; volume 53, 2018
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 53.
Contents The world's 'idols' -- Parables of contact -- Material alchemies -- Relic values -- 'Netted' works
Summary At the turn of the sixteenth century, the notion of world was dramatically being reshaped, leaving no aspect of human experience untouched. The Nomadic Object: The Challenge of World for Early Modern Religious Art examines how sacred art and artefacts responded to the demands of a world stage in the age of reform. Essays by leading scholars explore how religious objects resulting from cross-cultural contact defied national and confessional categories and were re-contextualised in a global framework via their collection, exchange, production, management, and circulation. In dialogue with current discourses, papers address issues of idolatry, translation, materiality, value, and the agency of networks. The Nomadic Object demonstrates the significance of religious systems, from overseas logistics to philosophical underpinnings, for a global art history.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Art and globalization -- History
Culture and globalization -- History
Religious art.
ART -- General.
Art and globalization
Culture and globalization
Religious art
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Göttler, Christine, editor.
Mochizuki, Mia M., editor.
LC no. 2017045616
ISBN 9789004354500
9004354506