Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary

Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary investigates the pictorial representation of types from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century.

Tara Zanardi is Associate Professor of Art History, Hunter College, CUNY, USA. Lynda Klich is Assistant Professor of Art History, Hunter College, CUNY, USA.

Table of Contents: Contributors; Introduction to Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary: Local Contexts and Global Practices, Tara Zanardi and Lynda Klich; Repeating, Borrowing, and Serializing the Type; Fashion, Nation and Morality in English Allegorical Costume Prints, c. 1620-40, Heather A. Hughes; "Bodies of Work in the ancien régime: the Costumes Grotesques by Nicolas I de Larmessin", Sarah Buck; The Color of the Orient: On Ottoman Costume Albums, European Print Culture, and Cross-Cultural Exchange, Elisabeth Fraser; On and off the Tram: Contemporary Types and Customs in Madrid's Illustrated and Satirical Press (1874-1898), Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo; Staging Place; Venice: City of Fashion and Power in Giacomo Franco's Habiti d'huomini et donne venetiane (ca.1610), Eugenia Paulicelli; Costuming the Empire: A Study on the Production of Tributary Paintings at the Qianlong Court in Eighteenth-Century China, Yu-chih Lai; Enrique Díaz's Parade of Progress: Toward a Streamlined Mexican Future, Denise Birkhofer; Performing the Documentary; "True Types of the London Poor": Street Life in London's Transitional Typology, Emily Kathryn Morgan; The Myth of the Baiana in Nineteenth-Century Portrait Photography, Maya Jiménez; Circulating lo mexicano in Mauricio Yáñez's Postcards, Lynda Klich; It is written in their faces: Seri women and facial painting in photography, Deborah Dorotinsky; The Materials of Typology; Fashioning a Nation. Military dress in Peruvian Independence, 1821-1822, Natalia Majluf; From Global Traveler to Costumbrista Motif: The Mantón de Manila and the Appropriation of the Exotic, Tara Zanardi; Cloth, Clothing, and Colonial Power: France and West Africa at the Expositions , Victoria L. Rovine; Against "Fashion-Time:" Bernhard Willhelm, Regional Folk Dress and the Contemporary, Charlene K. Lau; Unmasking Stereotypes; Ambassadors à la turc: Assimilation and Dissimulation in Eighteenth-Century Images of French-Ottoman Diplomacy, Ashley Bruckbauer; The Transmediterranean Routes of Fashion: Between Material Expression and Artistic Representation, Leyla Belkaïd-Neri; Julio Galán and the Type: Fashioning a 'Border' Aesthetic, Teresa Eckmann