Cite this article as: Eleanore Neumann, with Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Nebahat Avcıoğlu, Emma Barker, Sarah Betzer, Ananda Cohen-Aponte, Dipti Khera, Prita Meier, Nancy Um, and Stephen Whiteman, “Teaching the ‘Long’ Eighteenth Century – A Conversation & Resources,” Journal18, Issue 12 The ‘Long’ 18th Century? (Fall 2021), https://www.journal18.org/5891. Licence: CC BY-NC Journal18…
Two exhibitions installed across the Seine from each other this past summer used versions of the same artworks—two eighteenth-century French tapestries from the royal series known as the Nouvelles Tentures des Indes— to tell very different stories about European legacies of race, slavery, and colonialism. One version, from a set…
Nicolas Roth Conjuring up a lavish display of fireworks and illumination in celebration of the Indian spring festival of Holi, the Urdu poet Sa‘ādat Yār Khān ‘Rangīn’ (1757-1835) wrote the following in 1798: Lab-i daryā pah balliyon ko gāṛ Bāndhe ṭhāṭhar unhon ne jaise pahāṛ Bāns un men karoṛhā hī…
This crowdsourced timeline chronicles the representation and regulation of black bodies in Europe, circa 1600-1800. As a tool for research and teaching, it allows users to cross-reference artworks and historical events in spatial and visual relation to one another. For an introduction to the timeline, the collaborative project behind it,…
This essay discusses the interactive timeline exploring Blackness, Immobility, & Visibility in Europe (1600-1800) launched on Journal18 in September 2020. With most of his figure cut out of the painting sometime after its completion, only the outstretched right arm of an unnamed black attendant remains on the lower left of…
Meredith Martin In 1748, at the end of the War of the Austrian Succession, the city of Paris decided to erect a monument to Louis XV. The project spurred an unofficial competition to design a square for the statue, resulting in scores of proposals from architects and amateurs. By far…
The ACA-RES research program on Art Academies and their Networks in Pre-Industrial France was initiated in 2016. It is supported by the FRAMESPA Laboratory (UMR 5136), the Labex “Structuration des Mondes Sociaux” (SMS), and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société de Toulouse. The activities and resources…
Nebahat Avcıoğlu “In the middle of the eighteenth century,” writes art historian Donald Preziosi, “an argument began to be made that sensory knowledge had a perfection of its own, which in its way was analogous to that of logic or ‘reason’.”[1] This volume contends that albums and album-making played an…
Meha Priyadarshini, Chinese Porcelain in Colonial Mexico: The Material Worlds of an Early Modern Trade (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 198 pages. The global life of porcelain has been the subject of important scholarship in recent decades. Chinese porcelain, the subject of Meha Priyadarshini’s new book, has been treated either as a…
Hannah Williams CLICK TO READ ARTICLE Abstract: Paris is a city renowned for its artistic communities. Yet while the art-world neighborhoods of modernist Paris are so well-known, we are far less familiar with the urban lives of the city’s earlier generations of artists. Where were the artists’ studios…