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Item Number: 136697
Title: Treasure Ships: Art in the Age of Spices
Author: Bennett, James ; Russell Kelty
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781921668227
Description: Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia , 2015. 33cm., hardcover, 352pp. with numerous color plates. Summary: This is the first exhibition in Australia to present the complex artistic and cultural interactions between the East and the West from the 16th to the 19th centuries – a period known as the ‘Age of Spices.’ This exhibition includes 300 outstanding and rarely-seen works of ceramics, decorative arts, furniture, metalware, paintings, prints and textiles from public and private collections in Australia, India, Portugal, Singapore and the United States. The selected works of art reveal how the international trade in spices and other exotic commodities inspired dialogue between Asian and European artists, centuries-old conversations whose heritage is the aesthetic globalism we know today. Exhibition highlights include Christian artwork created at ports such as Goa and Nagasaki on loan from Portugal and India, two works from the personal collection of Queen Adelaide (1792–1849) after whom the city of Adelaide is named, and artefacts retrieved from the Batavia, which sank off the Western Australian coast in the seventeenth century.
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