Collecting objects/excluding people : Chinese subjects and American visual culture, 1830-1900 / Lenore Metrick-Chen.
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TextPublication details: Albany [N.Y.] : State University of New York Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 278 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 1438443277
- 9781438443270
- Chinese subjects and American visual culture, 1830-1900
- Art, Chinese -- Collectors and collecting -- United States
- Art museums -- Social aspects -- United States
- Art and race
- China -- Foreign public opinion, American -- History -- 19th century
- China -- Foreign public opinion, American -- History -- 20th century
- Art chinois -- Collectionneurs et collections -- États-Unis
- Art et race
- ART -- Asian
- Art and race
- Art, Chinese -- Collectors and collecting
- Art museums -- Social aspects
- Public opinion, American
- China
- United States
- 1800-1999
- 709.51/0973 23
- N7340 .M47 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Politics of Chinoiserie: The Disappearance of Chinese Objects -- The Power of Inaction: Chinese Objects and the Transformation of the American Definition of Art -- From Class to Race: The New York Times Reconstructs "Chinese" -- The Chinese of the American Imagination: Nineteenth-century Trade Card Images -- Conclusion.
"Combining aesthetic and political history, explores the influence of Chinese people and objects on American visual culture. In Collecting Objects / Excluding People, Lenore Metrick-Chen demonstrations an unknown impact of Chinese immigration upon nineteenth-century American art and visual culture. The American ideas of "Chineseness" ranged from a negative portrayal to an admiring one and these varied images had an effect on museum art collections and advertising images. They brought new ideas into American art theory, anticipating twentieth-century Modernism. Metrick-Chen demonstrates that efforts to construct a cultural democracy led to the creation of unforeseen new categories for visual objects and unanticipated social changes. Collecting Objects / Excluding People reveals the power of images upon culture, the influence of media representation upon the lives of Chinese immigrants, and the impact of political ideology upon the definition of art itself."--Project Muse
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