| Anton Schweizer | Last modified date：2024.04.04 |
Professor /
Graduate School of Humanities, International MA of Premodern Humanities IMAP /
Department of Philosophy /
Faculty of Humanities
Papers
| 1. | Anton Schweizer, “Nanban Lacquer: Global Styles and Materials in a Japanese Cabinet.” , In Stephen John Campell and Stephanie Porras (ed.): The Routledge Companion to the Global Renaissance, New York e.a.: Routledge, 2024., pp. 67-83. , 2024.02. |
| 2. | Anton Schweizer, Bridges into Metaphorical Space: Hideyoshi’s Imperial Landscapes at Osaka., In Stephen Whiteman (ed.): Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World. (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022., 2023.04, This volume explores the role of landscape in the articulation and expression of imperial and elite identities and the mediation of relationships between courts and their many audiences in the early modern world. Twelve focused studies from East and South Asia, the Islamic world, and Europe illuminate how early modern courts and societies shaped, and were shaped by, the landscape, including both physical sites, such as gardens, palaces, cities and hunting parks, and conceptual ones, such as those of frontiers, idealized polities, and the cosmos. Courts and societies across early modern Eurasia were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication, greatly expanded mobility, the spread of scientific knowledge, and the emergence of an increasingly integrated global economy all affected the means by which states articulated and projected visions of authority into societies that, in turn, perceived and responded to these visions in often contrasting terms. Landscape both reflected and served as a vehicle for these transformations, as the relationship between the land and its imagination and consumption became a fruitful site for the negotiation of imperial identities within and beyond the precincts of the court.. |
| 3. | Anton Schweizer, “Puppets for the Margravine: Japanese Ephemera and their (Re)Construction in Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie.”, 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual 2:1 (Spring, 2021), pp. 3-46., 2, 1, 3-46, 2021.04, [URL], This article introduces a group of 23 textile appliqués, or oshi-e – scraps of padded and painted fabric applied to a support of papier mâché – that were manufactured in Japan during the final decades of the seventeenth century. The pieces were soon transferred to Europe and collected by Sibylla Augusta Margravine of Baden (1675–1733). One of Germany’s early advocates of the stylistic idiom of chinoiserie, by 1723 Sibylla had integrated the pieces into the decoration of her newly erected mansion Favorite near Rastatt. This article has two foci. First, it contextualizes the genre of textile appliqués within its Japanese culture of origin where such items served as ephemeral festival decoration, fashionable accessories, and tools of sophisticated pastime in the milieu of urban merchants. Secondly, the article explores practical and theoretical aspects of intercultural transfer and discusses the fundamental re-reading of transferred artifacts against the background of chinoiserie in central Europe. The appliqués at Schloss Favorite are significant in several respects. They count among the oldest surviving examples of this genre worldwide. They become even more valuable from the fact that their maker, Fujiya Saburōbei, can be unambiguously identified from existent documentation as a leading manufacturer of oshi-e and purveyor to the Dutch East India Company. While there is no conclusive evidence, there is a strong possibility that the appliqués at Schloss Favorite came to Europe as private merchandise of the famous traveler and author, Engelbert Kaempfer (1651–1716). Lastly, the pieces constitute exceedingly rare material evidence for the role of textiles and other ephemera in both early modern Japan and Europe as well as related practices of collecting and display.. |
| 4. | Anton Schweizer, “The Elector’s Japan: Reading Export Lacquer in Baroque Germany.” , European Association of Asian Art and Archeology; Brill Publishers , 2018.06, In Patricia Frick and Annette Kieser (eds.): Production, Distribution and Appreciation: New Aspects on East Asian Lacquer Wares.. |
| 5. | Anton Schweizer, “Kōgeihin toshite no kenzōbutsu: Toyotomi-ki Ōsaka-jō no sōshoku ni kan suru kōsatsu” 工芸品としての建造物：豊臣期大阪城の装飾に関する考察 [Buildings as crafted objects: Some thoughts on the decoration of Osaka Castle during the Toyotomi era]. , Shūbi 聚美 11 (April, 2014), 68-79, 2014.04. |
| 6. | Anton Schweizer, Avinoam Shalem, co-authored with Avinoam Shalem: “Translating Visions: A Japanese Lacquer Plaque of the Haram of Mecca in the L. A. Mayer Memorial Museum, Jerusalem.” Ars Orientalis 39 (2010), pp. 148-173., Ars Orientalis, 2010.11. |
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