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Item Number: 123124
Title: Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Author: Chang, Ting
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409437765
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 197pp., 40 b&w illus. Summary : Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines transnational relations and intercultural exchange between modern Europe and Asia. At the core of the study are three major collectors, Enrico (Henri) Cernuschi, Emile Guimet, and Edmond de Goncourt, whose practices are analyzed to illuminate a larger history of East-West contact. The book takes an original approach that includes such overlooked issues as the impact of monetary histories and theories on European collections of Asian objects; the somatics of travel; collecting, writing, and display as polymorphous narratives of identity. Travel is a framing argument. By examining European reports of journeys through Asia and also diaries of Japanese and Chinese visitors to Europe in the nineteenth century the book highlights the social relations and foreign labors that are constitutive of museums but typically left out of analysis. Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris will be of interest to scholars, students, as well as non-specialist readers concerned with art history, museum studies, the social history of travel, and modern transnational histories. Contents: Introduction; The historical terms of Euro-Asian object acquisition; Gold, silver, and bronze: Cernuschi’s collection and re-appraisals of Europe and Asia; The labor of travel: Guimet and Régamey in Asia; Equivalence and inversion: France, Japan and China in Goncourt’s cabinet; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. (The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700–1950)
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