Japanese Export Lacquer and Global Art History: An Art of Mediation in Circulation

Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-57237-0_2

Japanese Export Lacquer and Global Art History: An Art of Mediation in Circulation

Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann

Art and Archaeology

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Abstract

Japanese export lacquer was enmeshed in a complex network of commercial and artistic relations. Raw materials were brought from Southeast Asia to Japan, where finished lacquerware was made for export. Japanese export lacquer adapted Chinese and Indian decorative techniques, as well as European designs for motifs, forms, and functions. Chinese or Ryukyuan junks along with Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch ships carried lacquer to places in Asi, Europe, and the Americas, where it was adopted and emulated. Lacquer thus provides a prime example of an art of mediation that involved Europeans and Asians in processes of circulation in the global history of art.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Art, Trade, and Cultural Mediation in Asia, 1600–1950
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	13-42
Number of pages	30
ISBN (Electronic)	9781137572370
ISBN (Print)	9781137572363
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57237-0_2
State	Published - Jan 1 2018

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
General Business, Management and Accounting
General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences

Keywords

Art history
Global trade
Inter-Asian trade
Japan
Lacquerware

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