Global Arts Network - Members
At Warwick, historians of science, technology, the economy and culture are examining how webs of specialist artists, artisans and entrepreneurs/merchants fostered the invention of products, materials and processes.
The major Ashmolean gallery re-development plan is centred on the themes of 鈥楥rossing Cultures-Crossing Time鈥� focussing on the intermingling of cultural influences through trade, voyages of discovery and the transfer of technology and ideas.
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WARWICK PARTICIPANTS
鈥� Renaissance Venice 鈥� collecting luxury goods - bronzes
- History of technology - global luxury trade
鈥� Global history and divergence 17th-18thC.
鈥� Renaissance Italy 鈥� cultural interchange and religious objects
- 18th- and 19th-century India - colonial collecting and display
鈥� Yuan-Ming China 鈥� Jingdezhen and porcelain for the wider world
鈥� Global history and the Indian cotton industry
- France - luxury goods - 18th c. history of science
- Renaissance Venice - silk - patents - state manufactures of luxury goods
鈥� Global textiles - early modern French and English material culture - fashion
鈥� Objects of science and the 17thC. German courts - history of science
ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM OF ART & ARCHAEOLOGY PARTCIPANTS
Dr. Professor James Allan (Director of Ashmolean Inter-Faith Exhibition Service) - Islamic art
Dr. Ruth Barnes (Oriental Institute & Eastern Art) - East-West gallery development officer - Indian textiles & Indian Ocean trade
Dr. Henry Kim (Assistant Keeper, Heberden Coin Room) - Redevelopment Project
Dr. Nicholas Mayhew (Deputy Director and Keeper of the Heberden Coin Room)
(Warden of Merton College, Oxford) - Jade
Ms. Shelagh Vainker (Assistant Keeper, Eastern Art) - Chinese ceramics and silk
Dr. Oliver Watson (Keeper of Eastern Art) - Islamic art and ceramics
VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM PARTICIPANTS
(Head of Graduate Studies, Research Department) - ceramics & furniture
(Renaissance Course Tutor, Research Department) - Renaissance material culture 鈥� Italy and the Middle East
Dr. Rosemary Crill (Senior Curator South and South-East Asian Department) - Asian textiles
(V&A/LCF fellow in Contemporary fashion) - Textiles, craft communities, world markets and the Gujarat
Dr Amin Jaffer (Asian Department) - Indian furniture
Dr Reino Liefkes (Curator Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics & Glass) - glass
Dr Lesley Miller (Senior Curator Furniture, Textiles and Fashion) - silk
