Format:
1 Online-Ressource (364 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9783035803068
Content:
Exotic Switzerland? -- Introduction -- Becoming Self through the Other: Another History of the Enlightenment -- Swiss Porcelain and Slavery in the Global Eighteenth Century -- Slavery, Exoticism, and Swiss Exceptionalism around 1800 -- Tea, Textures, and Techniques: Jean-Étienne Liotard and the Arts of Asia -- Asian Objects in Switzerland: Between Collector's Items and Consumer Goods -- Human Trafficking -- A Genevan in Quest of the American Museum: Pierre-Eugène Du Simitière -- Is Antiquity Exotic? -- Printing the Exotic: Forms and Figures of the "Faraway" before the Birth of Anthropology -- Learning from Objects: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Zurich's Wasserkirche and its Functions -- Alexandre-César Chavannes's Anthropology -- Swiss Chintzes: Cotton Threads and Political Patterns -- Site of Memory and Projection Surface: Place in Scenic Wallpapers -- The Swiss as European Savages? -- The Discovery of the Alps: Between "Science" and Exoticism -- Indiennes for the Swiss -- Afterword: The Ruses of Exoticism -- The Fragile Structures of In-Betweenness: Susan Hefuna -- Authors -- Table of Figures -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Impressum: "This book has been published on the occasion of the exhibition "Exotic Switzerland? Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment" that took place from September 24, 2020 to February 28, 2021 at Palais de Rumine in Lausanne"
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783035802276
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Exotic Switzerland? Zurich : Diaphanes, 2020 ISBN 9783035802276
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3035802270
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Schweiz
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Exponat
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Kunst
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Exotismus
;
Aufklärung
;
Geschichte 1680-1790
;
Schweiz
;
Aufklärung
;
Exotismus
;
Kunsthandwerk
;
Kuriosität
;
Das Andere
;
Anthropologie
;
Geschichte 1700-1800
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Ausstellungskatalog
Author information:
Étienne, Noémie 1981-
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