Reading Objects in the Contact Zone

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The cultural effects of globalization constitute one of the most important challenges for the discipline of art history today. The aim of this publication is to take a critical look at art historical narratives. Based on transcultural object biographies, the volume brings together analyses of objects and images that circulate in transcultural contact zones: their histories of origin, circulation and perception slice through space and time. The histories of these objects and images thus demonstrate in exemplary fashion how knowledge and understanding can be generated, communicated or also challenged in cultural contact zones. Hence, the publication is designed as a methodological contribution to a transcultural art and cultural history. It is also conceived as an instrument for teaching and contains a critical-discursive glossary of key-terms that combines theory and practice of transcultural art history. Die kulturellen Auswirkungen der Globalisierung gehören heute zu den bedeutendsten Herausforderungen für das Fach Kunstgeschichte. Ziel dieser Publikation ist eine kritische Betrachtung kunsthistorischer Narrative auf der Basis von transkulturellen Objekt-Biografien. Der Band versammelt Analysen von Objekten und Bildern, deren Entstehungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichten sich über Kulturräume und Epochen hinwegbewegen. Sie führen beispielhaft vor, wie Wissen und Erkenntnis in kulturellen Kontaktzonen erzeugt, transportiert oder auch herausgefordert werden. Auf diese Weise versteht sich die Publikation als methodischer Beitrag zu einer transkulturellen Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte. Sie ist auch für den Einsatz in der universitären Lehre konzipiert und beinhaltet ein kritisch-diskursives Glossar von Schlüsselbegriffen, die Theorie und Praxis der transkulturellen Kunstgeschichte miteinander verbinden. Cover: Front Title Table of Contents Acknowledgements Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Kerstin Schankweiler and Anna Sophia Messner On the ‘Objectscape’ of Transculturality. An Introduction Part I: Economies of Photo-Objects Anna Sophia Messner Migratory Memories: A Suitcase as Photo Archive Katharina Upmeyer Portrait of Space: Lee Miller’s Photograph as Surrealist Contact Zone Erin Hyde Nolan Two-Faced: Translations of a Portrait of Abdülhamid II Elahe Helbig Transnational Encounters: A Photograph of Mozaffar al-Din Mirza from an Italian Mission to Persia Part II: Utility and Representation Theodore Van Loan Multiple Temporalities and the Scene of Time: A Pair of Wooden Doors at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo Maria Sobotka Displaying Cross-Culturality: A Water Basin from Mosul in Berlin Matthias Weiß Cytherian China Part III: Building the Transcultural Modernity Sonja Hull The Weizmann House: Staging the Nation-Building Process of Israel Cristiana Strava Critical Appropriations of Modernity: Michel Écochard’s 8 by 8 Meter Housing Grid, Hay Mohammadi, Casablanca Part IV: Displaying Stories in the Contact Zone Eva-Maria Troelenberg Constellations of Memory and Representation: A Lunar Sample Display in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi Westrey Page Translating Prehistory: Empathy and Rock Painting Facsimiles in the New York Museum of Modern Art Alison Boyd A Modernist Display at the Barnes Foundation: Curating Formalism, Primitivism, and Democracy Lea Mönninghoff A “Non-Existing Existence” in the Contact Zone: Emily Jacir’s stazione (2008–2009) Part V: Figurative Objects, Trajectories, and Valuations Frederika Tevebring Baubo on the Pig: Travel across Disciplines Felicity Bodenstein The Global Market Trajectories of Two Brass Leopards from Benin City (1897–1953) Kerstin Schankweiler Double Trophy: Gou by Akati Ekplékendo Rhea Blem Becoming a Masterpiece? The Batcham Mask and its Display at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich Part VI: Iconographies of Encounter and Translation Lisa Heese The Camposanto in Pisa by Leo von Klenze: The Encounter between a Classicist and an Islamic Artwork Janna Verthein Qajar Women and Madonnas? Mother and Child by Muhammad Hasan Emily Neumeier Portrait of Ali Pasha: Cultural Mobility on the Periphery of Empire Part VII: Perceptions between Image and Text Sria Chatterjee The Arts of Science in the Contact Zone: A Satirical Picture Tom Young Art and Sociability in Colonial India: The Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrapbooks Isabella Krayer Between the Visual and the Aural: Elias Canetti’s The Voices of Marrakesh Key-Terms Affect Agency Allelopoiesis Appropriation Canon Circulation Commodification Constellation Cultural Mobility Cultural Transfer Decolonizing Detail East / West Empathy Entangled Histories Europerie Exoticism Expanded Contact Zone Fragment Gender Heritage Hybridity Masterpiece Microhistory Multiple Modernities Nation North / South Object Ethnographies Orientalism Othering Periphery Photo Archive Primitivism Resilience Return Spolia Translation Visuality About the Authors Cover: Back