1st Edition

Artistic Responses to Travel in the Western Tradition

Edited By Sarah J. Lippert Copyright 2018
274 Pages 65 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 65 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 65 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In an era when ease of travel is greater than ever, it is also easy to overlook the degree to which voyages of the body – and mind – have generated an outpouring of artistry and creativity throughout the ages. Exploration of new lands and sensations is a fundamental human experience. This volume in turn provides a stimulating and adventurous exploration of the theme of travel from an... Read more

Introduction; Part I: Travel of Great Import: Culture, Class, and Politics; Chapter 1 by Monica Anke Hahn: "Images of Novelties:" The Adorned Body in John Webber’s A Man of the Sandwich Islands, Dancing ;Chapter 2 by Alice Walkiewicz: The Humor of Circumstance: Caricature and the Foreign Tour of the British Middle Class; Chapter 3 by Chad Airhart: Tours of the Charleston Renaissance and the Visual Construction of Southern Charm: A Comparison of Local versus Visiting Artists; Part II: Travel on a Smaller Scale: Voyages in the Familiar; Chapter 4 by Elsie Heung: Elevated in the City: Ashcan Realism and the Visualization of the "El" Train in New York City, 190030; Chapter 5 by Anna Piperato: The Palio of Siena: A Journey through Time; Chapter 6 by Stephen Cartwright: Quantified Drift; Part III: Imaginary Travel and Travel of the Mind; Chapter 7 by Gerald Hess: Itinerant Hadrian and Imperial Patronage Belonging to all the World; Chapter 8 by Liana De Girolami Cheney: Giorgio Vasari's Planetary Ceiling: A Neoplatonic Voyage; Chapter 9 Going back to the Beginning of Things: The Ancient Origins of the Arts of France; Part IV: Trail Blazers: Travel for the Brave; Chapter 10 Zaida BenYusuf Chapter 11 Beyond the European Grand Tour: The Travels and Related Writings of Marguerite Thompson Zorach; Chapter 12 Women in High Places: Georgia O’Keeffe; Conclusion

 

Biography

Sarah J. Lippert is Associate Professor of Art History, University of Michigan-Flint, USA.