The Itineraries of Art

Topographies of Artistic Mobility in Europe and Asia. Edited by Karin Gludovatz, Juliane Noth & Joachim Rees.

Ten contributions, divided in three chapters: 1. Art History and the Route: Transcultural Approaches; 2. Symbolic Itineraries and Topographies: Framing Roads and Routes; 3. Crosroads as Contact Zones: artefacts of Interaction. - While recent scholarship dealt with the economic and political historiographies of road systems, this book focuses on routes as stimuli of cultural transfer and artistic production. Framed in the historiography of longue durée, routes may be addressed as trajectories that cut across cultural geographies and periodizations. With focus on the early modern period, the volume foregrounds an unprecedented expansion and transformation of route-networks. New combinations of transcontinental routes profoundly affected cultural topographies and symbolic paradigms. The rise of Asian and European port cities as nodes of maritime systems and prosperous cultural contact zones is closely linked to these shifts; routes, hubs, and the fabrication of collective imaginations about them therefore constitute the central themes of this book. 323 Seiten, broschiert (Berliner Schriften zur Kunst/Brill | Fink 2015) Fleck auf hinterem Einbanddeckel/stain to back cover