Introduction
Section One: Confronting Art History: Overviews, Perspectives
and Reflections
Introduction
Critical Approaches
1.1 Orientalism
a) Edward W. Said, ‘Introduction – Section II’ , Orientalism
b) Linda Nochlin, ‘The Imaginary Orient’
1.2 Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture
a) ‘The Other Question: Stereotype, Discrimination and the
Discourse of Colonialism’
b) ‘Articulating the Archaic: Cultural Difference and Colonial
Nonsense’
1.3 New perspectives and approaches in Art History
a) Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, ‘The Geography of Art: Historiography,
Issues, and Perspectives’
b) James Elkins, ‘Why Art History is Global’
c) Parul Dave Mukherji, ‘Whither Art History in a Globalizing
World’
Section Two: European art and the Wider World c.
1350–1550
Introduction
Primary Source texts
2.1. Europeans describing Amerindian artists in Mexico
a) Allè, Francesco da Bologna, letter sent from Mexico to Padre
Clemente Dolera da Moneglia, head of the Order of Conventual
Franciscans in Bologna, and other friars of the order
b) Bernal Díaz, The Conquest of New Spain
c) Bartolomé de Las Casas, ‘Indian Houses, Featherwork and
Silverwork’
2.2 Albrecht Dürer, ‘Part II: Diary of a Journey the Netherlands
(July, 1520 – July, 1521)', Memoirs of Journeys to Venice and the
Low Countries
2.3 Sources on proposed work by Leonardo and Michelangelo for the
Ottoman Sultans
a) Leonardo da Vinci, undated letter to Sultan Bayezid II
b) Tommaso di Tolfo in Edirne (in Ottoman Turkey) to Michelangelo
in Florence
c) Ascanio Condivi, ‘Life of Michelangelo’
2.4 Gifts to Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence from the Gifts from
Qaytbay, the Mamluk Sultan in Cairo
a) L. Landucci, Diario fiorentino dal 1450 al 1516 continuato da un
anonimo fino al 1542
b) Paolo Giovio, Gli elogi. Vite brevemente scritte d’huomini
illustri di guerra, antichi et moderni
2.5 Travel Narratives
a) Vasco da Gama, ‘A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama
1497–1499’
b) Duarte de Sande, ‘An Excellent Treatise of the Kingdom of
China’
c) Giovanni da Empoli, extract of a letter to his father
d) Duarte Barbosa, ‘The Great City of Bisnagua’
Critical Approaches
2.6 Claire Farago, ‘Reframing the Renaissance Problem Today:
Developing a Pluralistic Historical Vision’
2.7 Avinoam Shalem, ‘Dangerous Claims On the ‘Othering’ of Islamic
Art History and How it Operates within Global Art History’
2.8 Luca Molà and Marta Ajmar-Wollheim, ‘The Global Renaissance:
Cross-Cultural Objects in the Early Modern Period’
2.9 Jack Goody, ‘The Idea of the Renaissance’
Section Three: Art, Commerce and Colonialism:
1600–1800
Introduction
Primary Source texts
3.1 Johan Huyghen van Linschoten on Goa, from Iohn Huighen van
Linschoten. his discours of voyages into ye Easte & West Indies
Deuided into foure books
3.2 Texts on Colonial Latin American art
a) Extract from the First Provincial Council in Lima
1551–52
b) Extract from Padre Antonio de Vega Loaiza, Historia del Colegio
y Universidad de San Ignacio de Loyola en la Ciudad de Cusco
c) Letter from the Viceroy of Peru Manuel Amat y Junyent to Crown
official Julián de Arriaga accompanying a shipment of Casta
paintings to the collection of the Royal Cabinet of Natural History
1770
d) Picture caption by Diego Rivera, from The Arts in Latin America
1492–1820
3.3 Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo on Amsterdam, from Adam Olearius,
The voyages and travells of the ambassadors sent by Frederick, Duke
of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of
Persia…
3.4 Texts on Chinoiserie in Britain.
a) A catalogue of all the rich and elegant household furniture,
…late the property of Her Grace the Duchess of Kingston,
deceased…at Thorseby Park…Which will be sold by auction, by Mr.
Christie …on Wednesday, 10th June 1789
b) Oliver Goldsmith, ‘Letter XIV on Chinoiserie’ in The citizen of
the world; or Letters from a Chinese philosopher, residing in
London, to his friends in the East
3.5 Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
a) 14 Laws
b) Query 19 Colleges, Buildings, Roads, &c.
Critical Approaches
3.6 Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, ‘Painting of the Kingdoms: A global
view of the cultural field’
3.7 Benjamin Schmidt, ‘Mapping an Exotic World: The Global Project
of Dutch Cartography, circa 1700’
3.8 David Porter, ‘A Wanton Chase in a Foreign Place: Hogarth and
the Gendering of Exoticism in the Eighteenth-Century Interior’
3.9 Daniel Maudlin and Bernard L. Herman, ‘Introduction’ in
Building the British Atlantic World: Spaces, Places, and Material
Culture, 1600–1850
Section Four: Empire and Art: British India
Introduction
Primary Source texts
4.1 Did India have an authentic, truly Indian tradition of fine
art? The contentious issue of Gandharan art
a) Alexander Cunningham, Archaeological Survey of India. Report for
the Year 1871–72, Vol. 3
b) Raja Rajendralal Mitra, Indo-Aryans: Contributions Towards the
Elucidation of Their Ancient and Mediaeval History
c) James Fergusson, Archaeology in India, with Special Reference to
the Works of Babu Rajendralal Mitra
d) Sister Nivedita, ‘Introduction’ in Kakuzo Okakura (ed.) The
Ideals of the East with Special Reference to the Art of Japan
4.2 Neo-Orientalism, Nationalism and Pan-Asianism
a) E. B. Havell, ‘The New Indian School of Painting’
b) Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, ‘The Aim of Indian Art’
c) Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, ‘Art of the East and of the West’
4.3 Ravi Varma – The first modern Indian Artist
a) Balendranath Tagore, ‘Ravi Varma’
b) Ramananda Chatterjee, ‘Ravi Varma’
4.4 The Modern, Internal Primitivism and Hinduization
a) Roger Fry, ‘Oriental Art’
b) Vincent A. Smith, A History of Fine Art in India & Ceylon
4.5 Authentic Indian Designs
a) George Birdwood, The Industrial Arts of India, Part 1
b) George Birdwood, The Industrial Arts of India, Part 2
c) Thomas Holbein Hendley, ‘Decorative Arts in Rajputana’
d) Thomas Holbein Hendley, ‘The Opening of the Albert Hall and
Museum in Jeypore’
Critical Approaches
4.6 Tim Barringer, Geoff Quilley and Douglas Fordham,
‘Introduction’ in Art and the British Empire
4.7 Theodore Koditschek, ‘Race Struggles’
4.8 Lee Lawrence, ‘The Other Half of Indian Art History: A Study of
Photographic Illustrations in Orientalist and Nationalist
Texts’
4.9 Carol A. Breckenridge, ‘The Aesthetics and Politics of Colonial
Collecting: India at World Fairs’
4.10 Christopher Pinney, ‘The Material and Visual Culture of
British India’
Section Five: Art after Empire: From Colonialism to
Globalisation
Introduction
Primary Sources
5.1 Modernism and Primitivism
a) Maurice de Vlaminck, ‘Discovery of African Art’
b) Emil Nolde, ‘On Primitive Art’
c) Andre Breton et al., ‘Murderous Humanitarianism’
5.2 Mexican Muralism
d) David Alfaro Siqueiros, ‘A Declaration of Social, Political and
Aesthetic Principles’
e) Interview with Alberto Hijar Serrano, Researcher of Plastic Arts
of the National Institute of Fine Arts
Critical Approaches5.3 Terry Smith, ‘The Provincialism Problem’
5.4 Stuart Hall, ‘Museums of Modern Art and the End of History’
5.5 Okwui Enwezor, ‘The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary
Art is a State of Permanent Transition’
5.6 Chin-Tao Wu, ‘Biennials without Borders’
5.7 Hito Steyerl, ‘Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the
Transition to Post-Democracy'
Index
Diana Newall is Associate Lecturer at The Open University and Consultant Lecturer at Sotheby's Institute of Art
'This book offers important new insights into the history of Renaissance arts by rethinking key objects and themes through the lens of cross-culturality. Its contribution is especially welcome as it demonstrates how exactly the idea of the Renaissance was formed by its global contacts and through acculturation of arts and ideas from beyond Europe.' Sussan Babaie, Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam, The Courtauld Institute of Art 'Art history has become increasingly engaged with global connections, but to date no study has filled the need for a synthetic overview of the early modern period. We can never again see the 'Renaissance' in the same, isolated way after reading these chapters. ' Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania -- .
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