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The Great Chinese Art Transfer - How So Much of China's Art Came to America (Hardcover)
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The Great Chinese Art Transfer - How So Much of China's Art Came to America (Hardcover)
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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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