{"title":"Strange Things for Strangers: Transcultural Automata in Early Modern Amsterdam","authors":"A. Vanhaelen","doi":"10.1080/00043079.2021.1882811","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In early modern Amsterdam, inns and taverns were used as innovative exhibition spaces for unusual inventions, including automata. Very few of the artifacts survive, but publicity materials and evidence from travel accounts indicate their renown in the seventeenth century. Often advertised as particularly worthwhile for strangers and foreign visitors to the mercantile city, these attractions mediated cultural diversity and knowledge exchange through pleasure and entertainment. Bringing together locals, travelers, and moving artworks, the mobile dynamics of these sites fostered new ways of interacting in an increasingly interconnected world.","PeriodicalId":46667,"journal":{"name":"ART BULLETIN","volume":"103 1","pages":"42 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ART BULLETIN","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.2021.1882811","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ART","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract In early modern Amsterdam, inns and taverns were used as innovative exhibition spaces for unusual inventions, including automata. Very few of the artifacts survive, but publicity materials and evidence from travel accounts indicate their renown in the seventeenth century. Often advertised as particularly worthwhile for strangers and foreign visitors to the mercantile city, these attractions mediated cultural diversity and knowledge exchange through pleasure and entertainment. Bringing together locals, travelers, and moving artworks, the mobile dynamics of these sites fostered new ways of interacting in an increasingly interconnected world.
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The Art Bulletin publishes leading scholarship in the English language in all aspects of art history as practiced in the academy, museums, and other institutions. From its founding in 1913, the journal has published, through rigorous peer review, scholarly articles and critical reviews of the highest quality in all areas and periods of the history of art. Articles take a variety of methodological approaches, from the historical to the theoretical. In its mission as a journal of record, The Art Bulletin fosters an intensive engagement with intellectual developments and debates in contemporary art-historical practice. It is published four times a year in March, June, September, and December