The Great Chinese Art Transfer

How So Much of China's Art Came to America

Michael St. Clair (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2016
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
9781611479102 (ISBN)

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This is the story of the great outflows of art from China into the collections and museums of the West. Western collectors and international dealers gathered paintings, ceramics, and other art objects from 1860 into the early years of the twentieth century, resulting in a reverse flow as Chinese collectors purchase back their treasures.

This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in the West, in particular to the United States. As China’s last dynasty was weakening and collapsing from 1860 into the early years of the twentieth century, China’s internal chaos allowed imperial and private Chinese collections to be scattered, looted and sold. A remarkable and varied group of Westerners entered the country, had their eyes opened to centuries of Chinese creativity and gathered up paintings, bronzes and ceramics, as well as sculptures, jades and bronzes.

The migration to America and Europe of China’s art is one of the greatest outflows of a culture’s artistic heritage in human history. A good deal of the art procured by collectors and dealers, some famous and others little known but all remarkable in individual ways, eventually wound up in American and European museums. Today some of the art still in private hands is returning to China via international auctions and aggressive purchases by Chinese millionaires.

Michael St. Clair is professor emeritus at Emmanuel College, Boston.

Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter One: China: Alluring and Mysterious to the West
Chapter Two: China’s Tradition of Collecting
Chapter Three: The Greatest Collection Ever
Chapter Four: Foreigners in China’s Curios and Antiquities Shops
Chapter Five: American Pioneers in China: Yankee Traders, Missionaries and Diplomats
Chapter Six: Taste-Makers and Early Ceramics Collectors
Chapter Seven: International Dealers in Chinese Art
Chapter Eight: The Boston Orientalists and the Japanese Connection
Chapter Nine: Americans Who Began to Collect Chinese Porcelain
Chapter Ten: The Pace of American Collecting Increases
Chapter Eleven: The Age of Giants Who Collected
Chapter Twelve: The Great Public Collections of Chinese Art
Chapter Thirteen: Forgeries, Fakes, and the Repatriation of Art
Select Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2016
Zusatzinfo	12 b/w photos;
Verlagsort	Cranbury
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 239 mm
Gewicht	503 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781611479102 / 9781611479102
Zustand	Neuware