Collectors, collections & collecting the arts of China : histories & challenges /

This is a scholarly volume that provides a systematic overview of major histories of fine collections of Chinese art in the UK, US, and Canada, including collections built in the 18th through the 21st centuries.

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Other authors / contributors: Steuber, Jason (Editor), Lai, Guolong
Imprint: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
Format: Book
Language:English
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Series:David A. Cofrin Asian art manuscript series.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jason Steuber
  • Early Chicago chronicles of early Chinese art / Elinor Pearlstein
  • The early formation of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum's Chinese Collection / Deborah Del Gais
  • Art and science as competing values in the formation of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm / Magnus Fiskesjö
  • Stewart Culin: Chinese vernacular culture in America and the enchantment of the museum / Amy G. Poster
  • Florence Ayscough: pioneer promoter of modern Chinese painting in America / Zaixin Hong
  • C.T. Loo and the formation of the Chinese collection at the Freer Gallery of Art, 1915-1951 / Daisy Yiyou Wang
  • A tale of two tureens: the early Chinese bronze collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / Guolong Lai
  • A unique pair: the bronze rhinoceros and its collector, Avery Brundage / Jay Xu
  • Reinventing "China": provenance, categories, and the collecting of Chinese ceramics, 1910-2010 / Stacey Pierson
  • Objectives and challenges: past, present, and future of collecting Chinese antiquities in the Royal Ontario Museum / Chen Shen
  • Perspectives on collecting and provenance: the arts of China at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art / Jason Steuber
  • CARP-ON: further thoughts on Chinese art provenance research / Nick Pearce.