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Author Lippert, Sarah J., 1975-

Title Artistic responses to travel in the Western tradition / edited by Sarah J. Lippert
Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Routledge Research in Art History
Routledge research in art history.
Contents Introduction / Sarah J. Lippert -- Part 1 : Travel of great import: culture, class, and politics -- Dramatizing the encounter: the performative body in John Webber's 'A Man of the Sandwich Islands, Dancing' / Monica Anke Hahn -- The humor of circumstance: caricature and the foreign tour of the British middle class / Alice J. Walkiewicz -- Tours of the Charleston Renaissance and the visual construction of southern charm: a comparison of local versus visiting artists / Chad Wesley Airhart -- Part 2 : Travel on a smaller scale: voyages in the familiar -- Representing the "El" and the subway: urban travel as ordinary icon in New York City, 1900-30 / Elsie Heung -- The Palio of Siena: a journey through time / Anna Piperato -- Quantified drift / Stephen Cartwright -- Part 3 : Imaginary travel and travel of the mind -- Itinerant Hadrian and imperial patronage belonging to all the world / Gerald A. Hess -- Giorgio Vasari's planetary ceiling: a Neoplatonic voyage / Liana de Girolami Cheney -- Going back to the beginning of things: wishful travel and the ancient origins of the arts in France / Sarah J. Lippert -- Part 4 : Trail blazers: travel for the brave -- No typical tourist: photographer Zaida Ben-Yusuf in Meiji, Japan / Gillian Greenhill Hannum -- Beyond the European Grand Tour: the travels and related writings of Marguerite Thompson Zorach / Efram Burk -- Women in high places: Georgia O'Keeffe and Julia Codesido in the Peruvian Andes / Caroline L. Gillaspie -- Conclusion / Sarah J. Lippert
Summary "In an era when ease of travel is greater than ever, it is also easy to overlook the degree to which voyages of the body - and mind - have generated an outpouring of artistry and creativity throughout the ages. Exploration of new lands and sensations is a fundamental human experience. This volume in turn provides a stimulating and adventurous exploration of the theme of travel from an art-historical perspective. Topical regions are covered ranging from the Grand Tour and colonialism to the travels of Hadrian in ancient times and Georgia O'Keeffe's journey to the Andes; from Vasari's Neoplatonic voyages to photographing nineteenth-century Japan. The scholars assembled consider both imaginary travel, as well as factual or embellished documentation of voyages. The essays are far-reaching spatially and temporally, but all relate to how art has documented the theme of travel in varying media across time and as illustrated and described by writers, artists, and illustrators. The scope of this volume is far-reaching both chronologically and conceptually, thereby appropriately documenting the universality of the theme to human experience."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 30, 2018)
Subject Art -- History.
Travel in art.
Tourism in art.
Imperialism in art.
art history.
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
Art
Imperialism in art
Tourism in art
Travel in art
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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