Collecting and Displaying China's "summer palace" in the West : The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France / edited by Louise Tythacott.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781315113395 (e-book : PDF)
9781351624886 (e-book: Mobi)
9781138080553 (hardback)
9781351624886 (e-book: Mobi)
9781138080553 (hardback)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Basım Bildirimi
First edition.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Routledge, 2018.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (xiii, 172 pages)
Dizi
The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
İçindekiler Notu
part Part I Overviews -- chapter 1 The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects / LOUISE TYTHACOTT -- chapter 2 The Afterlives of a Ruin: The Yuanmingyuan in China and the West / JAMES L. HEVIA -- chapter 3 From the Summer Palace 1860: Provenance and Politics / NICK PEARCE -- part Part II The Yuanmingyuan in Britain -- chapter 4 The Yuanmingyuan and Design Reform in Britain / KATE HILL -- chapter 5 “True Beauty of Form and Chaste Embellishment”: Summer Palace Loot and Chinese Porcelain Collecting in Nineteenth-century Britain / STACEY PIERSON -- chapter 6 “Chinese Gordon” and the Royal Engineers Museum / JAMES SCOTT -- chapter 7 “Rose-water Upon His Delicate Hands”: Imperial and Imperialist Readings of the Hope Grant Ewer / KEVIN MCLOUGHLIN -- part Part III The Yuanmingyuan in France -- chapter 8 Henri Bertin (1720–1792) and Images of the Yuanmingyuan in Eighteenth-century France / JOHN FINLAY -- chapter 9 Empress Eugenie’s Chinese Museum at the Chateau of Fontainebleau: An Unusual Decor in the “House of the Ages” / VINCENT DROGUET -- chapter 10 Yuanmingyuan on Display: Ornamental Aesthetics at the Musee Chinois / GREG M. THOMAS.
Özet, vb.
"In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China--the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan--and many of these are now scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums. With contributions from leading specialists, this is the first book to focus on the collecting and display of "Summer Palace" material over the past 150 years in museums in Britain and France. It examines the way museums placed their own cultural, political and aesthetic concerns upon Yuanmingyuan material, and how displays--especially those at the Royal Engineers Museum in Kent, the National Museum of Scotland and the Musaee Chinois at the Chaateau of Fontainebleau--tell us more about European representations and images of China, than they do about the Yuanmingyuan itself."--Provided by publisher.
Konu
Yihe Yuan (Beijing, China)
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China __ Study and teaching.
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China __ Study and teaching.
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