Travel, collecting, and museums of Asian art in nineteenth-century Paris

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The work Travel, collecting, and museums of Asian art in nineteenth-century Paris represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Travel, collecting, and museums of Asian art in nineteenth-century Paris

Statement of responsibility

Ting Chang

Creator

• Chang, Ting, (Professor)

Subject

• Art, East Asian -- Collectors and collecting -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century
• East Asia -- Relations -- Europe
• Europe -- Relations -- East Asia
• International travel -- Social aspects -- East Asia -- History -- 19th century
• International travel -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
• Paris (France) -- Civilization -- 19th century
• Art museums -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century

Language

eng

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."--

Member of

• Histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950