Scholars discuss the new book,
Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565–1898). The conversation explores global culture and economic exchange on the transpacific routes between Asia and the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries — an era of competition for global trade networks — and how those interchanges have made a profound impact on contemporary art and culture, especially in the cosmopolitan cities of Manila and Los Angeles along the Pacific Rim.
With the participation of,
Dr. Aaron Hyman, Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Ruth Franch De Llobet, Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of History, NYU Shanghai
Dr. Stephanie Porras, Chair, Associate Professor, Newcombe Art Department, Tulane University
Dr. Florina H. Capistrano-Baker, formerly Museum Director of the Ayala Museum where she is currently a consultant.
Dr. Meha Priyadarshini, Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Edinburgh.
Two other conversations in this series are organized by the University of Edinburgh/Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut on
March 30, 2022, and at the Getty Research Institute on
May 25, 2022.
You can now get a copy of Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565–1898) — a joint publication by Getty Research Institute, the Ayala Museum, and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut — through the
MuseumShop. Also find more information on a related ongoing exhibition,
Intertwined: Transpacific, Transcultural Philippines, curated by Dr. Florina Capistrano-Baker.
Penned by authors from all over the globe, the essays in the book address cultural and artistic exchanges in the Asia-Pacific region with an emphasis on the Spanish and American enterprises. While most of the essays center on the Philippine experience, we see how other parts of the world, notably South and Southeast Asia and Europe, were also impacted by these linkages.