Pub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9789048553303-fm
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Pub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9789048553303-009
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9789048553303-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048553303-009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":139417,"journal":{"name":"Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128304790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9789048553303-006
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Pub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9789048553303-008
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Pub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9789048553303-004
{"title":"3 Shell Worlds: Maritime Microcosms in EurAsian Art and Material Culture","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9789048553303-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048553303-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":139417,"journal":{"name":"Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123309268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-21DOI: 10.5117/9789463721158_ch03
A. Grasskamp
Asian shells were collected in early modern Europe, while Mediterranean coral was sought after in Asia. In both locations, artists and artisans created EurAsian objectscapes placing maritime material appropriated from abroad alongside local matter. Such painted and crafted shellscapes and coralscapes materialised ideas on the generation and transformation of matter. This chapter compares the cosmological ideas and material constituents that underlie artistic maritime microcosms and shows how their components echoed the material mapping of foreign spaces in the frameworks of European colonialism and Chinese tributary systems. Despite associations with culturally specific tropes in Greek mythology, Christianity, Daoism and Buddhism, the chapter argues that across Eurasia shells were believed to form gateways to underwater treasuries and give access to supernatural females.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-21DOI: 10.5117/9789463721158_ch04
A. Grasskamp
This chapter discusses images of women with shells across Eurasia and the artistic negotiation of materiality and corporality, objectification and sexual agency, intimacy and distance in both physical and geographical senses. While some of the works discussed are well-known representations of Venus surrounded by sexualised objectscapes, the chapter also introduces religious imagery framed by shells and women with shells in early modern Chinese and Japanese paintings. Despite their differences, all of these works link female bodies to objects of maritime material culture. The chapter argues that in China and Europe, images of women with shells are visual and material reflections of foreign (underwater) spaces full of riches, paradise-like realms that not only promise material affluence but also erotic fulfilment.
{"title":"Woman with a Shell: Transcultural Exchange, Female Bodies and Maritime Matters","authors":"A. Grasskamp","doi":"10.5117/9789463721158_ch04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463721158_ch04","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses images of women with shells across Eurasia and the artistic\u0000 negotiation of materiality and corporality, objectification and sexual agency,\u0000 intimacy and distance in both physical and geographical senses. While some of the\u0000 works discussed are well-known representations of Venus surrounded by sexualised\u0000 objectscapes, the chapter also introduces religious imagery framed by shells and\u0000 women with shells in early modern Chinese and Japanese paintings. Despite their\u0000 differences, all of these works link female bodies to objects of maritime material\u0000 culture. The chapter argues that in China and Europe, images of women with\u0000 shells are visual and material reflections of foreign (underwater) spaces full of\u0000 riches, paradise-like realms that not only promise material affluence but also\u0000 erotic fulfilment.","PeriodicalId":139417,"journal":{"name":"Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129131553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-21DOI: 10.5117/9789463721158_ch02
A. Grasskamp
In early modern China and Europe, shell-building organisms were considered human-like in their abilities to design and construct proto-architectural geometric shapes. Likewise, images of birds hatching from shells feature prominently in sources from both cultures, evoking associations between shells and eggshells, molluscs that craft their own houses and birds that build their own nests. This chapter considers the creative agency of molluscs as reflected in Eurasian thought, art, and material culture, conceptualizing shells as ‘clever’ objects that informed artisanal and scientific practices across cultures. Against the background of transcultural narratives on the generation of pearls that attribute molluscs with female features, the chapter presents evidence of a shared ecological understanding of the material agency of shells across early modern Eurasia.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-21DOI: 10.5117/9789463721158_ch01
A. Grasskamp
New knowledge of shell-carving techniques practiced in China changed the way materials were physically manipulated by craftsmen in Europe, a process that contributed to the appropriation but also the exoticisation and eroticisation of collectible shells across Eurasia. Mapping the geography of transcultural connections in maritime material culture, this chapter discusses shells, in particular nautilus shells, in relation to the bodies of early modern artisans and collectors in China and Europe. Examining concepts of material agency and considering objects as ‘actors’, it argues that Guangzhou-carved conches changed early modern European craftsmanship through non-verbal means and shows how shells were perceived in both cultures as gendered objects at the intersection of material collecting and visual fantasies of oceans and foreign spaces.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-21DOI: 10.5117/9789463721158_conc
A. Grasskamp
As shells are integral to early modern reflections on the relations between human and non-human realms, thinking with and through ocean objects, their sensual appeal as well as their intrinsic ‘otherness’, teaches us about the shaping of aesthetics and ecologies of matter in imperial centres and their peripheries. The study of shell artefacts brings to the fore patterns of transcultural objectification in the early modern desire to collect and possess foreign nature and, by extension, foreign peoples across Eurasia. Adding references to selected modern artworks, the conclusion highlights how shells offer analogies between the appropriation of objects and the conquest of foreign peoples during the early modern period, a process in which material, sexual and political aspects are closely entangled.
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