The Great Chinese Art Transfer

How So Much of China's Art Came to America

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Art History, Asian, General Art
Cover of the book The Great Chinese Art Transfer by Michael St. Clair, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Michael St. Clair ISBN: 9781611479119
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Publication: April 1, 2016
Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Language: English
Author: Michael St. Clair
ISBN: 9781611479119
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Publication: April 1, 2016
Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Language: English

This 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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

This 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.

More books from Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Cover of the book Shakespeare’s Dramatic Persons by Michael St. Clair
Cover of the book Enter the Undead Author by Michael St. Clair
Cover of the book Law In and As Culture by Michael St. Clair
Cover of the book Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s by Michael St. Clair
Cover of the book Coarseness in U.S. Public Communication by Michael St. Clair
Cover of the book The Riggs War, 1913 to 1916 by Michael St. Clair
Cover of the book Worlds of Hungarian Writing by Michael St. Clair
Cover of the book Cruelty and Desire in the Modern Theater by Michael St. Clair
Cover of the book Kafkaesque Laws, Nisour Square, and the Trials of the Former Blackwater Guards by Michael St. Clair
Cover of the book Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature by Michael St. Clair
Cover of the book Reimagining Life by Michael St. Clair
Cover of the book Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida by Michael St. Clair
Cover of the book Pinter’s World by Michael St. Clair
Cover of the book Appropriating Shakespeare by Michael St. Clair
Cover of the book Goliarda Sapienza in Context by Michael St. Clair
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy