Beyond Chinoiserie
Artistic Exchange between China and the West during the Late Qing Dynasty (1796-1911)
Published on 1. November 2018
Book
Hardback
340 pages
978-90-04-38782-9 (ISBN)
Description
The complex interweaving of different Western visions of China had a profound impact on artistic exchange between China and the West during the nineteenth century. Beyond Chinoiserie addresses the complexity of this exchange. While the playful Western "vision of Cathay" formed in the previous century continued to thrive, a more realistic vision of China was increasingly formed through travel accounts, paintings, watercolors, prints, book illustrations, and photographs. Simultaneously, the new discipline of sinology led to a deepening of the understanding of Chinese cultural history. Leading and emerging scholars in the fields of art history, literary studies and material culture, have authored the ten essays in this book, which deal with artistic relations between China and the West at a time when Western powers' attempts to extend a sphere of influence in China led to increasingly hostile political interactions.
Reviews / Votes
"Instead of compartmentalizing and thereby obviating the multilayered complexity of nineteenth-century chinoiserie in its multicultural contexts, this publication embraces the complexity and tackles it full on. In this respect, it serves as a model for holistic approaches to topics of cross-cultural artistic exchange."-Sonia Coman, Smithsonian Institution, in Journal of Japonisme 5 (2020) pages 98-104
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-38782-9 (9789004387829)
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Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Ph.D. (1972), Columbia University, teaches art history at Seton Hall University (USA). A specialist in nineteenth-century art history, she has published widely. Her textbook, Nineteenth-Century European Art (Pearson, 2012), is used across the world. She is the founding Co-editor of the e-journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (2002-).
Jennifer Milam, Ph.D. (1996), Princeton University, is Head of the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne (Australia). Her publications traverse the creativity of the eighteenth century from French painting and criticism to Russian gardens and chinoiserie, including the Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art (Scarecrow, 2011).
Jennifer Milam, Ph.D. (1996), Princeton University, is Head of the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne (Australia). Her publications traverse the creativity of the eighteenth century from French painting and criticism to Russian gardens and chinoiserie, including the Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art (Scarecrow, 2011).
Content
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Beyond Chinoiserie
?Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Jennifer Milam
1 The China Trade and the Classical Tradition in Federal America
?Patricia Johnston
2 Jefferson's Interest in China and the Gongs of Monticello
?Jennifer Milam
3 Copying in Reverse: China Trade Paintings on Glass
?Maggie M. Cao
4 Etienne-Jean Delecluze, Art from China, and Nineteenth-Century French Painting
?Kristel Smentek
5 Staging China, Japan, and Siam at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867
?Meredith Martin
6 Victor Hugo and the Romantic Dream of China
?Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
7 Chrysanthemums and Cultivated Visions of the Victorian Garden
?Elizabeth Chang
8 The Musee d'Ennery and the Shifting Reception of Nineteenth-Century French Chinoiseries
?Elizabeth Emery
9 Fashion, Chinoiserie, and the Transnational: Material Translations between China, Japan and Britain
?Sarah Cheang
10 From Shanghai to Brussels: The Tushanwan Orphanage Workshops and the Carved Ornaments of the Chinese Pavilion at Laeken Park
?William Ma
Conclusion
?Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Jennifer Milam
Abstracts and Keywords
Index
Introduction: Beyond Chinoiserie
?Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Jennifer Milam
1 The China Trade and the Classical Tradition in Federal America
?Patricia Johnston
2 Jefferson's Interest in China and the Gongs of Monticello
?Jennifer Milam
3 Copying in Reverse: China Trade Paintings on Glass
?Maggie M. Cao
4 Etienne-Jean Delecluze, Art from China, and Nineteenth-Century French Painting
?Kristel Smentek
5 Staging China, Japan, and Siam at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867
?Meredith Martin
6 Victor Hugo and the Romantic Dream of China
?Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
7 Chrysanthemums and Cultivated Visions of the Victorian Garden
?Elizabeth Chang
8 The Musee d'Ennery and the Shifting Reception of Nineteenth-Century French Chinoiseries
?Elizabeth Emery
9 Fashion, Chinoiserie, and the Transnational: Material Translations between China, Japan and Britain
?Sarah Cheang
10 From Shanghai to Brussels: The Tushanwan Orphanage Workshops and the Carved Ornaments of the Chinese Pavilion at Laeken Park
?William Ma
Conclusion
?Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Jennifer Milam
Abstracts and Keywords
Index