Japanese ‘Maize and Cockscombs’ six-panel screen (detail), mid-seventeenth century. Ink, color, and gold on paper. 170.2 cm x 357 cm. Art Institute of Chicago, Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
A World of Things: Exchange and Material Culture in the First Global Age, 1500-1800 | Robert Wilson Annual Lecture 2016 | Professor Giorgio Riello, Director of the Warwick Institute of Advanced Study and Professor of History at Warwick University
We are often told that we live in an age of globalization, one of growing homogenization of consumption, increasing communication and cultural and economic integration. Yet the study of material culture suggests that today’s global connectedness is not new. The early modern period (c. 1500-1800) can be seen as the ‘first global age’ as contact between different parts of the world intensified.
Explore the artefacts of the first global age and the role of material culture in creating global connectivity with prize-winning historian Giorgio Riello.
Date: Mon 2 May, 6.30pm
Venue: NGV International
Free entry - Book now on the NGV website http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/a-world-of-things-exchange-and-material-culture-in-the-first-global-age-1500-1800/#date0
The NGV gratefully acknowledges the support of the Mobility, Translation and Identity Network and the Research Program in Global History at Monash University for this event.