European University Institute Library

Qing encounters, artistic exchanges between China and the West, edited by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Ning Ding, with Lidy Jane Chu

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Qing encounters

bibliography

904905006

edited by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Ning Ding, with Lidy Jane Chu

Issues & debates

artistic exchanges between China and the West

"Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the encounters between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. These essays reveal how trading and copying images, artifacts, and natural specimens inflected both cultures' visions of novelty and pleasure, battle and power, and ways of seeing and representing. Artists and craftspeople borrowed and adapted forms, techniques, and modes of representation, producing deliberate, meaningful, and complex hybrid creations. By considering this reciprocity from both Eastern and Western perspectives, Qing Encounters offers a new and nuanced understanding of this critical period. Petra ten-Doesschate Chu is a professor of art history and museum studies and director of graduate studies in Museum Professions at Seton Hall University. Ning Ding is a professor of art history and theory and vice-dean at the School of Arts, Peking University."--, Provided by Publisher