Making Worlds

Angela Vanhaelen is a professor of art history at McGill University. Bronwen Wilson is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Memorial Clark Library at UCLA.

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Acknowledgments

1. Introduction
Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson
 
Part One: Material Flows
 
2. The Early Modern Fold: Pleated Media in Japan’s Encounter with Europe
Kristopher Kersey 
 
3. From Textile to Text: Cloth, Slavery, and the Archive in the Dutch Atlantic
Carrie Anderson
 
4. Drawing Worlds in Smoke, Powder, and Fumes: Bodies and Trifles in Il Tabacco, the Courtly Ballet Staged in Turin (1650)
Elisa Antonietta Daniele
 
5. From Hot Reverence to Cold Sweat: Christian Art and Ambivalence in Early Modern Japan
Benjamin Schmidt
 
6. Eggs, Cheese, and (Francis) Bacon
Helen Smith
 
Part Two: In-Between Spaces
 
7. The Cabinet and the World: Non-European Objects in Early Modern European Collections
Daniela Bleichmar
 
8. Le Jeu du monde: Games, Maps, and World Conquest in Early Modern France
Ting Chang 
 
9. The World Contained in an Imperial Ottoman Album
Emine Fetvaci
 
10. World Building, the Folger Folios, and the University of British Columbia
Patricia Badir 
 
Part Three: Other Worlds

11. Ascetic Ecology: Landscape of a Desert Saint
Lyle Massey
 
12. The End of All: Worldliness, Piety, and the Social Life of Maps in the Post-Reformation English Household
Gavin Hollis
 
13. Enlightenment Cosmology: A Medialogical Interpretation
J.B. Shank
 
14. Masked Alliances: Global Politics and Economy in the Art and Performance Rituals of Mexico’s Indigenous People
John M.D. Pohl and Danny Zborover
 
15. Unease with the Exotic: Ambiguous Responses to Chinese Material Culture in the Dutch Republic
Thijs Weststeijn

Contributors
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