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Upmeyer, Katharina et al. (Eds.): Reading Objects in the Contact Zone, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2021 (Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality, Volume 9). https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.766

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Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Kerstin Schankweiler, Anna Sophia Messner (Eds.)

Reading Objects in the Contact Zone

Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality

The cultural effects of globalization constitute one of the most important challenges for the discipline of art history today. The aim of this publication is to take a critical look at art historical narratives. Based on transcultural object biographies, the volume brings together analyses of objects and images that circulate in transcultural contact zones: their histories of origin, circulation and perception slice through space and time. The histories of these objects and images thus demonstrate in exemplary fashion how knowledge and understanding can be generated, communicated or also challenged in cultural contact zones. Hence, the publication is designed as a methodological contribution to a transcultural art and cultural history. It is also conceived as an instrument for teaching and contains a critical-discursive glossary of key-terms that combines theory and practice of transcultural art history.

Eva-Maria Troelenberg is professor for modern and contemporary art history at Utrecht University. She was head of the Max-Planck-Research Group “Objects in the Contact Zone—The Cross-Cultural Lives of Things” at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz—Max-Planck-Institut from 2011 to 2018. She has taught the history of Islamic art, modern global art history and transcultural museum history at the Universities of Vienna and Heidelberg and as a visiting professor at LMU Munich and University of Zürich, and she was a research fellow at the Munich Centre for Global History.

Kerstin Schankweiler is Professor for Visual Studies in a Global Context at the Institute for Art and Music, Technische Universität Dresden. She is co-editor of the online review journal “Kunstform” and a member of the Scientific Network “Cultures of Aesthetic Resistance”.  Her research interests focus on Digital Image Cultures, Contemporary Art from Africa, Art History and Postcolonial Theory, Art History in a Global Context.

Anna Sophia Messner is scientific staff member at the Institute für Art History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München where she was a PhD candidate from 2011-2020. From 2015 to 2018 she was doctoral fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz—Max-Planck-Institut. Her research focus includes modern and contemporary art in a global context, Jewish art and historiography, visual culture of Israel and Palestine, history and theory of photography, art history and postcolonial theory.

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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Kerstin Schankweiler, Anna Sophia Messner
On the ‘Objectscape’ of Transculturality
An Introduction
Part I: Economies of Photo-Objects
Anna Sophia Messner
Migratory Memories
A Suitcase as Photo Archive
Katharina Upmeyer
"Portrait of Space"
Lee Miller’s Photograph as Surrealist Contact Zone
Erin Hyde Nolan
Two-Faced
Translations of a Portrait of Abdülhamid II
Elahe Helbig
Transnational Encounters
A Photograph of Mozaffar al-Din Mirza from an Italian Mission to Persia
Part II: Utility and Representation
Theodore Van Loan
Multiple Temporalities and the Scene of Time
A Pair of Wooden Doors at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo
Maria Sobotka
Displaying Cross-Culturality
A Water Basin from Mosul in Berlin
Matthias Weiß
Cytherian China
Part III: Building Transcultural Modernity
Sonja Hull
The Weizmann House
Staging the Nation-Building Process of Israel
Cristiana Strava
Critical Appropriations of Modernity
Michel Écochard’s 8 by 8 Meter Housing Grid, Hay Mohammadi, Casablanca
Part IV: Displaying Stories in the Contact Zone
Eva-Maria Troelenberg
Constellations of Memory and Representation
A Lunar Sample Display in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi
Alison Boyd
A Modernist Display at the Barnes Foundation
Curating Formalism, Primitivism, and Democracy
Westrey Page
Translating Prehistory
Empathy and Rock Painting Facsimiles in the New York Museum of Modern Art
Lea Mönninghoff
A “Non-Existing Existence” in the Contact Zone
Emily Jacir’s "stazione" (2008–2009)
Part V: Figurative Objects, Trajectories, and Valuations
Frederika Tevebring
Baubo on the Pig
Travel across Disciplines
Felicity Bodenstein
The Global Market Trajectories of Two Brass Leopards from Benin City (1897–1953)
Kerstin Schankweiler
Double Trophy
"Gou" by Akati Ekplékendo
Rhea Blem
Becoming a Masterpiece? The "Batcham Mask" and its Display at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich
Part VI: Iconographies of Encounter and Translation
Lisa Heese
"The Camposanto in Pisa" by Leo von Klenze
The Encounter between a Classicist and an Islamic Artwork
Janna Vertheim
Qajar Women and Madonnas? "Mother and Child" by Muhammad Hasan
Emily Neumeier
Portrait of Ali Pasha
Cultural Mobility on the Periphery of Empire
Part VII: Perceptions between Image and Text
Sria Chatterjee
The Arts of Science in the Contact Zone
A Satirical Picture
Tom Young
Art and Sociability in Colonial India
The "Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrapbooks"
Isabella Krayer
Between the Visual and the Aural
Elias Canetti’s "The Voices of Marrakesh"
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