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Siting China in Germany - Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie and Its Modern Legacy (Hardcover)
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Siting China in Germany - Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie and Its Modern Legacy (Hardcover)
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Chinoiserie—the use of motifs, materials, and techniques
considered “Chinese” in ceramics, furniture, interior design,
and landscape architecture—has often been associated with courtly
decadence and shallow escapism. In Siting China in Germany,
Christiane Hertel challenges conventional assumptions about this
art form by developing a fresh, complex perspective on collections,
gardens, and literature in the long eighteenth century.
From the extraordinary porcelain palaces at Dresden
and Rastatt and the gardens of Wilhelmsthal
and Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel to the literary and
artistic translation practices in Dresden and Thomas
Mann's historical novel Lotte in
Weimar, Hertel interprets the extensive history of
chinoiserie within but also beyond court culture. In
particular, her study focuses on how manifestations of
chinoiserie in Germany oscillated between
the imagination, judgment, and critique of cultural and
historical difference as well as identity. Hertel’s erudite
analysis of the cultural significance of German chinoiserie will
interest art historians and scholars of Orientalism, German
Sinophilia, and German Sinophobia.
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