An edition of Agents of space (2016)

Agents of space

eighteenth-century art, architecture, and visual culture

Agents of space
Christina Smylitopoulos, Chris ...
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An edition of Agents of space (2016)

Agents of space

eighteenth-century art, architecture, and visual culture

In the last twenty-five years, the concept of space has emerged as a productive lens through which historians of the long eighteenth century can examine the varied and mutable issues at play in the creation and reception of objects, images, spectacles, and the built environment. This collection of essays investigates the potentialities afforded by space in eighteenth-century art and visual culture. Rather than being defined by a particular school of art or the type of space invoked, it invites global difference and reflects scholarly engagement in the eighteenth-century artistic phenomena of Italy, Mexico, and India, as well as Britain and France in immediate, imperial, and transnational contexts. The contributions here share an emphasis on agency, which in this context means the way in which objects, artists, architects, and patrons (in their many guises) have attempted to negotiate various artistic, political, philosophical, and socio-economic values through creating, reflecting, appropriating, denying, or reimagining space. Divided into two sections, the chapters in the first part, "Memory," examine specific episodes of eighteenth-century art and visual culture that are acts of remembering, or a result of such action, or objects used to persuade through reminding. In these essays, space's agency - whether understood as real, theoretical, or imagined - is harnessed by recalling past cultures so as to assert and reassert identities that are also bound by limiting factors, including class, religion, artistic methodology, and materiality. The chapters in the second section, "Reform," demonstrate memory's perseverance in eighteenth-century attempts to strike off in new directions, and consider more concrete and purposeful cases of reaching toward the future. In this section, the capacity of space to inform the development, growth, and even transformation of this period is emphasized, revealing an interest in the incremental or radical reform of politics, psychological states, artistic eminence, and colonial/imperial identities. This book invites a broader geographical scope to studies of space and underscores the ways in which agency can be productive to multifarious lines of artistic, cultural, and historical inquiry.

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Language
English
Pages
219

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Agents of space: eighteenth-century art, architecture, and visual culture
2016, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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Dewey Decimal Class
709.033
Library of Congress
N6420

The Physical Object

Pagination
1 online resource (xii, 219 pages)
Number of pages
219

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Open Library
OL44458584M
ISBN 10
1443892092, 1443888834
ISBN 13
9781443892094, 9781443888837
OCLC/WorldCat
948734442

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