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Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Paperback)
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Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Paperback)
Series: The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
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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.
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