TRAVEL, COLLECTING, AND MUSEUMS OF ASIAN ART IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY PARIS by Ting Chang, Assoc. Prof. Michael E. Yonan ( 9781409437765 )

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TRAVEL, COLLECTING, AND MUSEUMS OF ASIAN ART IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY PARIS

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Ting Chang, Assoc. Prof. Michael E. Yonan

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

13 September, 2013

Series:

The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950

Pages:

210

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Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines transnational relations and intercultural exchange between modern Europe and Asia. At the core of the study are three major collectors: Enrico (Henri) Cernuschi, Emile Guimet, and Edmond de Goncourt.

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Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines a history of contact between modern Europe and East Asia through three collectors: Henri Cernuschi, Emile Guimet, and Edmond de Goncourt. Drawing on a wealth of material including European travelogues of the East and Asian reports of the West, Ting Chang explores the politics of mobility and cross-cultural encounter in the nineteenth century. This book takes a new approach to museum studies and institutional critique by highlighting what is missing from the existing scholarship -- the foreign labors, social relations, and somatic experiences of travel that are constitutive of museums yet left out of their histories. The author explores how global trade and monetary theory shaped Cernuschi's collection of archaic Chinese bronze. Exchange systems, both material and immaterial, determined Guimet's museum of religious objects and Goncourt's private collection of Asian art. Bronze, porcelain, and prints articulated the shifting relations and frameworks of understanding between France, Japan, and China in a time of profound transformation.Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris thus looks at what Asian art was imagined to do for Europe. This book will be of interest to scholars and students interested in art history, travel imagery, museum studies, cross-cultural encounters, and modern transnational histories.

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Includes 40 b&w illustrations

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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