Plants and Gardens as Artefacts in Transcultural Contexts

Between Asia and Europe

AvMinna Törmä

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Del i serien Routledge Research in Art History

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Beskrivning

This edited volume explores the ways in which the object biography or object itinerary approach could be adapted to frame research on animate objects, such as plants and gardens in transcultural contexts. By treating these animate elements as ‘objects’ in the manner of artefacts and looking at their individual histories, we gain a more nuanced sense of how data accumulated, how new knowledge developed through printed texts and specimen collections, and how the creators of gardens or landscapes formed their collections. Chapters explore the shifts in meanings when objects from diverse origins meet in new cultural contexts where their new owners create assemblages based on their perception of the world. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, material culture, and cultural geography.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-10-02
Mått:174 x 246 x 22 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Research in Art History
Antal sidor:194
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032846491

Utforska kategorier

Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Referensverk och tvärvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Arkeologi inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Minna Törmä is an honorary senior lecturer research fellow in the history of art at the University of Glasgow and adjunct professor of art history at the University of Helsinki.

Recensioner i media

"Rich in new research and underpinned by a sophisticated engagement with questions of methodology, this impressive collection ranges widely in time and space. By focussing on the complex transcultural 'itineraries' of plants, images and spaces from the early modern period to the contemporary, each essay provides an individually enlightening case study, while taken together they make a significant contribution to our understanding of phenomena at the intersection of nature and culture."-- Craig Clunas, FBA, University of Oxford"Taking examples from the history of trade, art, architecture, and landscape design, the essays in this volume give us a nuanced understanding of how plants—as objects, images, or symbols—shaped transcultural exchanges. A timely contribution to a largely neglected field, highly informative and a pleasant read."--Anton Schweizer, Kyushu University

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Chapter 1 Introduction Minna Törmä Part I Chapter 2 Seventeenth-century Dutch ventures in the global rhubarb trade Anne Gerritsen Chapter 3 Breadfruit itineraries Sarah Easterby-Smith Chapter 4 Rootless Orchids could travel: Transplanting a Chinese plant iconography in the early modern world Yizhou Wang Part II Chapter 5 Concordia Discors: The ‘natural’ style in Alexander Pope’s grotto – from a ‘nymphaeum’ to a ‘mine’ Yue Zhuang Chapter 6 Questioning ‘Japaneseness’ in the Broughton House Garden Minna Törmä Chapter 7 East Asian inspired gardens in Sweden: Expressions of material culture and cultural encounters Catharina Nolin Chapter 8 Monet’s Pond in Tokyo: Global circulation of waterscape aesthetics and the politics of ecological curation Ewa Machotka and Takehiro Watanabe Bibliography Index