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Great Chinese Art Transfer : How So Much of China's Art Came to America by Michael St. Clair (2017, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFairleigh Dickinson University Press
ISBN-101611479126
ISBN-139781611479126
eBay Product ID (ePID)240271822
Product Key Features
Number of Pages250 Pages
Publication NameGreat Chinese Art Transfer : How So Much of China's Art Came to America
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
SubjectArt, Asian / Chinese, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Asian / General, Asia / China
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Antiques & Collectibles, History
AuthorMichael St. Clair
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight11.7 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
ReviewsDrawing primarily on secondary sources and collection catalogues, the book comprises an engaging overview of collections formed largely by Americans during this extraordinary period. It is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to discover more about key individuals, identifying as it does the sheer number of people collecting Chinese material, and providing almost dictionary-like entries. . . .[It will] be relevant for students of Chinese studies, museum studies, history, art history, as well as curators, collectors and dealers - and, indeed, anyone interested more generally in Chinese art and collecting., Enhanced with the inclusion of illustrations, and informative Foreword (Art Gives Pleasure), a four page Select Bibliography, and a twenty-nine page Index, "The Great Chinese Art Transfer: How So Much of China's Art Came to America" is extraordinarily and exceptionally well written, organized and presented from beginning to end. Of special note are the chapters on 'China's Tradition of Collecting' and 'Forgeries, Fakes, and the Repatriation of Art'... Very highly recommended as a core addition to community, college, and university library Art History collections., "Drawing primarily on secondary sources and collection catalogues, the book comprises an engaging overview of collections formed largely by Americans during this extraordinary period. It is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to discover more about key individuals, identifying as it does the sheer number of people collecting Chinese material, and providing almost dictionary-like entries. . . .[It will] be relevant for students of Chinese studies, museum studies, history, art history, as well as curators, collectors and dealers - and, indeed, anyone interested more generally in Chinese art and collecting." -- China Quarterly "Enhanced with the inclusion of illustrations, and informative Foreword (Art Gives Pleasure), a four page Select Bibliography, and a twenty-nine page Index, "The Great Chinese Art Transfer: How So Much of China's Art Came to America" is extraordinarily and exceptionally well written, organized and presented from beginning to end. Of special note are the chapters on 'China's Tradition of Collecting' and 'Forgeries, Fakes, and the Repatriation of Art'... Very highly recommended as a core addition to community, college, and university library Art History collections." -- Midwest Book Review
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Table Of ContentAcknowledgements 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
SynopsisThis 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberN7340.S75 2017
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