Collectors, Collections & Collecting the Arts of China

Collectors, Collections & Collecting the Arts of China
Title Collectors, Collections & Collecting the Arts of China PDF eBook
Author Jason Steuber
Publisher
Total Pages 0
Release 2014
Genre Art
ISBN 9780813049144

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"Based on a symposium co-organized by Guolong Lai and Jason Steuber."

Chinese Art: The Impossible Collection

Chinese Art: The Impossible Collection
Title Chinese Art: The Impossible Collection PDF eBook
Author Adrian Cheng
Publisher Assouline Publishing
Total Pages 6
Release 2021-05-01
Genre Travel
ISBN 1614288844

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While readers will come away from Chinese Art with a nuanced understanding of Chinese culture, the volume is also a work of art in its own right—a must-have collectible for any devotee of Chinese art and culture. Assouline’s Ultimate Collection is an homage to the art of luxury bookmaking—the oversized volume is hand-bound using traditional techniques, with several of the plates hand-tipped on art-quality paper and housed in a luxury silk clamshell.

Shaping Chinese Art History

Shaping Chinese Art History
Title Shaping Chinese Art History PDF eBook
Author Katharine Persis Burnett
Publisher
Total Pages
Release 2019
Genre Aesthetics, Chinese
ISBN 9781604979916

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"Pang Yuanji (1864-1949) was the collector from China with not only the largest number of high-quality antique paintings but also the most comprehensive and scholarly record of his collection. This is the first study that takes the innovative and unique approach to collection analysis by quantifying Pang's collection and comparing it to a selection of contemporaneous private collectors. In doing so, it shows how their tastes and interests were all shaped by the same Qing canon. More broadly, it explains that Pang did not merely absorb this canon, but then also purposefully and systematically used it and his collection to protect China's traditions into an uncertain future"--

The China Collectors

The China Collectors
Title The China Collectors PDF eBook
Author Karl E. Meyer
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Total Pages 442
Release 2015-03-10
Genre Art
ISBN 1466879297

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Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen? The China Collectors is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's 1949 ascent. The principal gatherers are mostly little known and defy invention. They included "foreign devils" who braved desert sandstorms, bandits and local warlords in acquiring significant works. Adventurous curators like Langdon Warner, a forebear of Indiana Jones, argued that the caves of Dunhuang were already threatened by vandals, thereby justifying the removal of frescoes and sculptures. Other Americans include George Kates, an alumnus of Harvard, Oxford and Hollywood, who fell in love with Ming furniture. The Chinese were divided between dealers who profited from the artworks' removal, and scholars who sought to protect their country's patrimony. Duanfang, the greatest Chinese collector of his era, was beheaded in a coup and his splendid bronzes now adorn major museums. Others in this rich tapestry include Charles Lang Freer, an enlightened Detroit entrepreneur, two generations of Rockefellers, and Avery Brundage, the imperious Olympian, and Arthur Sackler, the grand acquisitor. No less important are two museum directors, Cleveland's Sherman Lee and Kansas City's Laurence Sickman, who challenged the East Coast's hegemony. Shareen Blair Brysac and Karl E. Meyer even-handedly consider whether ancient treasures were looted or salvaged, and whether it was morally acceptable to spirit hitherto inaccessible objects westward, where they could be studied and preserved by trained museum personnel. And how should the US and Canada and their museums respond now that China has the means and will to reclaim its missing patrimony?

Collectors, Collections and Museums

Collectors, Collections and Museums
Title Collectors, Collections and Museums PDF eBook
Author Stacey Pierson
Publisher Peter Lang
Total Pages 252
Release 2007
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 9783039105380

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This book presents the first comprehensive study of the collecting, consumption and display of Chinese porcelain in Britain from the 16th to the 20th century, as well as the impact of this activity on British culture. Beginning with the early porcelains acquired as objects of exotica and vessels for the consumption of tea and coffee, followed by porcelains for display in the country house interior, the first part of this book reveals the role of porcelain in Britain's developing economic relations with China and the impact of this material on both daily life and interior design. The subsequent diplomatic and political conflicts of the 18th and 19th centuries provide a framework for an examination of British consumption of Chinese porcelain as both spoils of war and iconic representations of China, material which helped to shape and influence British perceptions of China. The final section demonstrates how these perceptions of China and its porcelain began to change significantly in the 20th century with porcelains acquired as works of art and displayed publicly in museums. Collectors in Britain began to specialise in this area and actively invented a 'field' of Chinese ceramics that was promulgated by learned societies and culminated in the founding of a museum of Chinese ceramics in London by one of the foremost British collectors, Sir Percival David, who donated his world class collection to the University of London in 1950.

Chinese Art and the Reeves Collection

Chinese Art and the Reeves Collection
Title Chinese Art and the Reeves Collection PDF eBook
Author Judith Magee
Publisher Images of Nature
Total Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre Art
ISBN 9780565092832

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"'Chinese Art and the Reeves Collection' is a selection of some of the finest examples of Chinese natural history drawings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many of which have never been published before."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.

Collecting China

Collecting China
Title Collecting China PDF eBook
Author Vimalin Rujivacharakul
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages 235
Release 2011
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 1611490065

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Collecting China is a unique collection of essays that brings together theories of materiality and what collecting has meant to various peoples over time. Collecting China grew out of a simple question: how does a thing become Chinese? Fifteen essays explore this question from different angles, ranging from close examination of world-renowned private collections to critical reinterpretations of historical writings.