Great Chinese Art Transfer (eBook)

How So Much of China's Art Came to America

Michael St. Clair (Autor)

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2016
250 Seiten
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
9781611479119 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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.

Autor

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

Inhalt

AcknowledgementsIllustrationsForewordIntroductionChapter One: China: Alluring and Mysterious to the WestChapter Two: China’s Tradition of CollectingChapter Three: The Greatest Collection EverChapter Four: Foreigners in China’s Curios and Antiquities ShopsChapter Five: American Pioneers in China: Yankee Traders, Missionaries and Diplomats Chapter Six: Taste-Makers and Early Ceramics CollectorsChapter Seven: International Dealers in Chinese ArtChapter Eight: The Boston Orientalists and the Japanese ConnectionChapter Nine: Americans Who Began to Collect Chinese PorcelainChapter Ten: The Pace of American Collecting IncreasesChapter Eleven: The Age of Giants Who CollectedChapter Twelve: The Great Public Collections of Chinese ArtChapter Thirteen: Forgeries, Fakes, and the Repatriation of ArtSelect BibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 12 Illustrations including: - 12 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Art History • Asian Art • Asian History • Chinese Art • Chinese history
• ISBN-13: 9781611479119 / 9781611479119