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The Great Chinese Art Transfer
How So Much of China's Art Came to America
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2016
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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.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-61147-910-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-61147-911-9
Publisher
University Press Copublishing, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
225
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
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Foreword No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
1 China No access Pages 5 - 16
2 China’s Tradition of Collecting No access Pages 17 - 32
3 The Greatest Collection Ever No access Pages 33 - 50
4 Foreigners in China’s Curio and Antiquities Shops No access Pages 51 - 68
5 American Pioneers in China No access Pages 69 - 88
6 Tastemakers and Early Ceramics Collectors No access Pages 89 - 100
7 International Dealers in Chinese Art No access Pages 101 - 114
8 The Boston Orientalists and the Japanese Connection No access Pages 115 - 128
9 Americans Who Began to Collect Chinese Porcelain No access Pages 129 - 146
10 The Pace of American Collecting Increases No access Pages 147 - 164
11 The Age of Giants Who Collected No access Pages 165 - 180
12 The Great Public Collections of Chinese Art and Their Curators No access Pages 181 - 202
13 Forgeries, Fakes, and the Repatriation of Art No access Pages 203 - 210
Select Bibliography No access Pages 211 - 214
Index No access Pages 215 - 224
About the Author No access Pages 225 - 225
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