Plants and Gardens as Artefacts in Transcultural Contexts

Between Asia and Europe

Buch | Hardcover

182 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-84649-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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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

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Erscheinungsdatum	07.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Art History
Zusatzinfo	14 Halftones, color; 43 Halftones, black and white; 14 Illustrations, color; 43 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	470 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-032-84649-6 / 1032846496
ISBN-13	978-1-032-84649-1 / 9781032846491
Zustand	Neuware