Babaie, Gibson (eds), The Mercantile Effect. Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World (2018)
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Η απήχηση του εμπορίου: Τέχνες και ανταλλαγές στον κόσμο της ισλαμικής κυριαρχίας τον 17ο και 18ο αιώνα (στα αγγλικά). Να σημειωθεί ότι ο ελκυστικός τίτλος είναι μάλλον δύσκολο να μεταφραστεί στα ελληνικά (αυτό είναι κατά προσέγγιση). Εκδότριες του συλλογικού τόμου που κυκλοφόρησε το 2018 είναι η Melanie Gibson (senior editor of the Gingko Library Arts Series) και η Sussan Babaie (του Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London).

Από την παρουσίαση του βιβλίου: “This lavishly illustrated volume of essays introduces a fascinating array of subjects, each exploring an aspect of the far-reaching “mercantile effect” and its impact across Western Asia in the early modern era. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the increased movement of merchants and goods from China to Europe brought desirable commodities to new markets, but also spread ideas, tastes, and technologies across Western Asia as never before. Through the newly-established Dutch, English, and French East India companies, as well as much older mercantile networks, commodities including silk, ivory, books, and glazed porcelains were transported both east and west. The Mercantile Effect shows a fascinating array of trade objects and the customs and traditions of traders that brought about a period of intense cultural interchange.”

Περιεχόμενα / Contents: Foreword by Melanie Gibson. Introduction by Sussan Babaie, The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World. Suet May, Lam Fantasies of the East: ‘Shopping’ in Early Modern Eurasia. Amy S. Landau, The Armenian Artist Minas and Seventeenth-Century Notions of ‘Life-Likeness’. William Kynan-Wilson, ‘Painted by the Turcks themselves’: Reading Peter, Mundy’s Ottoman costume Album in Context. Nicole Kançal-Ferrari, Golden Watches and Precious Textiles: Luxury Goods at the Crimean Khans’ Court and the Northern Black Sea Shore.

Nancy Um, Aromatics, Stimulants, and their Vessels: The Material Culture and Rites of Merchant Interaction in Eighteenth-Century Mocha. Federica Gigante, Trading Islamic Artworks in Seventeenth-Century Italy: the Case of the Cospi Museum. Anna Ballian, From Genoa to Constantinople: The Silk Industry of Chios. Christos Merantzas, Ottoman Textiles within an Ecclesiastical Context: Cultural Osmoses in Mainland Greece. Francesco Gusella, Behind the Practice of Partnership: Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Devotional Ivories of West India. Gül Kale, Visual Embodied Memory of an Ottoman Architect: Travelling on Campaign, Pilgrimage and Trade Routes in the Middle East. Contributors. Σύνολο σελ. 160, 170 εικόνες, κυκλοφορεί με σκληρό και με μαλακό εξώφυλλο.