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Patterns of Artistic Hybridization in the Early Protoglobalization Period
- Journal of World History
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 27, Number 2, June 2016
- pp. 215-253
- 10.1353/jwh.2016.0104
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This article proposes a theory of the main patterns of artistic hybridization developed during the early protoglobalization period (the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century). Many of the new intercontinental encounters of this period originated “hybrid” works of art—that is, objects that possess elements from two or more distinct artistic cultures, combined in an original manner. In assessing power relations between two parties confronted with each other’s alterity, this article identifies three main patterns of artistic hybridization: the