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Title Collecting China : the world, China, and a history of collecting / edited by Vimalin Rujivacharakul
Published Newark [Del.] : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, [2011]
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Description 210 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
Contents China and china: an introduction to materiality and a history of collecting / Vimalin Rujivacharakul -- Goncourt's China cabinet: China fantasy and a nineteenth-century French collector / Ting Chang -- Robinson Crusoe's earthenware pot / Lydia H. Liu -- What is Chinese about ancient artifacts? : Oracles bones and the transnational collectors Hayashi Taisuke and Luo Zhenyu / Shana J. Brown -- Making Asia out of China: Okakura Kakuzō's notions of classicism / Elizabeth Lillehoj -- Selective visions: contemporary collecting of Sino-western works on paper at the Getty / Marcia Reed -- Exporting China : the collecting taste of William and Henry Walters / C. Griffith Mann -- Rockefeller home decorating and objects from China / Stanley K. Abe -- A passion for China: Henry Francis du Pont's collection of export porcelain / Ronald W. Fuchs II -- From market and exhibition to university : Sir Percival David and the institutionalization of Chinese art history in England / Stacey Pierson -- There and back again: material objects at the first international exhibition of Chinese art in Shanghai, London, and Nanjing, 1935-1936 / Ellen Huang -- Collecting the world: sculptural ensemble of bestiary on General Huo Qubing's (140-117 BCE) tumulus / Eugene Wang -- Emperors and scholars: collecting culture and late imperial antiquarianism / Paola Dematté -- Living with art: the Yeh Family Collection and the modern practices of Chinese collecting / Wen-Hsin Yeh -- Reflections: notes on collecting in the first millennium of the common era: perspectives from west of China / Lawrence Nees
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-203) and index
Subject Art and globalization.
Art objects, Chinese -- Collectors and collecting -- History.
Object (Aesthetics)
Collectors and collecting -- Social aspects.
Collectors and collecting -- Psychological aspects.
Author Rujivacharakul, Vimalin, 1972-
LC no. 2010007941
ISBN 9780874130966
0874130964
9781611490060
1611490065