Title ""Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris ""

Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (210 pages) Series Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950 Histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; A Concise Review of Studies of Western Collections and Museums; Notes; 1 The Historical Terms of Euro-Asian Object Acquisition; Nineteenth-Century Asian Travel Accounts of Europe; Japanese Travel Accounts; Chinese Travel Writing; Notes; 2 Gold, Silver, and Bronze: Cernuschi's Collection and Reappraisals of Europe and Asia; A Fresh Approach to the Musée Cernuschi; A Profile of Cernuschi; Manifold Impressions of Japan and China; Conditions of Collecting; Metals and Global Monetary Histories Contact and HistoriographyShifting Frames of Interpretation in Europe; Shifting Frames of Interpretation in Asia; Conclusion; Notes; 3 The Labor of Travel: Guimet and Régamey in Asia; Travel and Representation; Notes; 4 Equivalence and Inversion: France, Japan, and China in Goncourt's Cabinet; Collection and Dissolution; Literary Scholarship on Goncourt; Theory and Practice: A Collection Within a Collection; The Market for Asian Objects; Functions of Chinoiserie; Functions of Asia; Goncourt's Polymorphic Narratives; Desire and Fantasy; Collections and Museums; Display; Notes; Conclusion Summary "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."--Provided by publisher Notes NotesBibliography; Index Print version record Subject Art, East Asian -- Collectors and collecting -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century Art museums -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century International travel -- Social aspects -- East Asia -- History -- 19th century International travel -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 19th century Art, East Asian -- Collectors and collecting Art museums Civilization International relations SUBJECT Paris (France) -- Civilization -- 19th century Europe -- Relations -- East Asia East Asia -- Relations -- Europe Subject East Asia Europe France -- Paris Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Yonan, Assoc. Prof. Michael E ISBN 9781351538459 1351538454

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