Collecting objects/excluding people : Chinese subjects and American visual culture, 1830-1900 /

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"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 cult...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Metrick-Chen, Lenore
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany [N.Y.] : State University of New York Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Art, Chinese > Collectors and collecting > United States.
Art museums > Social aspects > United States.
Art and race.
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 > Foreign public opinion, American > History > 19th century.
China > Foreign public opinion, American > History > 20th century.
China
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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