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The Great Chinese Art Transfer

Autor Michael St Clair
en Limba Engleză Hardback – apr 2016
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."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781611479102
ISBN-10: 161147910X
Pagini: 244
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield

Notă biografică

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

Cuprins

Acknowledgements Illustrations Foreword Introduction Chapter One: China: Alluring and Mysterious to the West Chapter Two: Chinäs Tradition of Collecting Chapter Three: The Greatest Collection Ever Chapter Four: Foreigners in Chinäs 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

Descriere

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.