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Collectors, collections & collecting the arts of China : histories & challenges / edited by Jason Steuber, with Guolong Lai.

Contributor(s): Steuber, Jason [editor.] | Lai, Guolong
Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 327 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 32 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780813049144Other title: Collectors, collections and collecting the arts of ChinaSubject(s): Art, Chinese -- Collectors and collecting -- Western countries -- History | Art objects, Chinese -- Collectors and collecting -- Western countries -- History | Art, Chinese -- Exhibitions -- History | Art objects, Chinese -- Exhibitions -- HistoryDDC classification: 709.51/075 LOC classification: N7340 | .C625 2014
Contents:
Introduction / Jason Steuber -- Early Chicago chronicles of early Chinese art / Elinor Pearlstein -- The early formation of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum's Chinese Collection / Deborah Del Gais -- Art and science as competing values in the formation of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm / Magnus Fiskesjö -- Stewart Culin: Chinese vernacular culture in America and the enchantment of the museum / Amy G. Poster -- Florence Ayscough: pioneer promoter of modern Chinese painting in America / Zaixin Hong -- C.T. Loo and the formation of the Chinese collection at the Freer Gallery of Art, 1915-1951 / Daisy Yiyou Wang -- A tale of two tureens: the early Chinese bronze collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / Guolong Lai -- A unique pair: the bronze rhinoceros and its collector, Avery Brundage / Jay Xu -- Reinventing "China": provenance, categories, and the collecting of Chinese ceramics, 1910-2010 / Stacey Pierson -- Objectives and challenges: past, present, and future of collecting Chinese antiquities in the Royal Ontario Museum / Chen Shen -- Perspectives on collecting and provenance: the arts of China at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art / Jason Steuber -- CARP-ON: further thoughts on Chinese art provenance research / Nick Pearce.
Summary: This is a scholarly volume that provides a systematic overview of major histories of fine collections of Chinese art in the UK, US, and Canada, including collections built in the 18th through the 21st centuries.
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"Based on a symposium co-organized by Guolong Lai and Jason Steuber."

Introduction / Jason Steuber -- Early Chicago chronicles of early Chinese art / Elinor Pearlstein -- The early formation of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum's Chinese Collection / Deborah Del Gais -- Art and science as competing values in the formation of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm / Magnus Fiskesjö -- Stewart Culin: Chinese vernacular culture in America and the enchantment of the museum / Amy G. Poster -- Florence Ayscough: pioneer promoter of modern Chinese painting in America / Zaixin Hong -- C.T. Loo and the formation of the Chinese collection at the Freer Gallery of Art, 1915-1951 / Daisy Yiyou Wang -- A tale of two tureens: the early Chinese bronze collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / Guolong Lai -- A unique pair: the bronze rhinoceros and its collector, Avery Brundage / Jay Xu -- Reinventing "China": provenance, categories, and the collecting of Chinese ceramics, 1910-2010 / Stacey Pierson -- Objectives and challenges: past, present, and future of collecting Chinese antiquities in the Royal Ontario Museum / Chen Shen -- Perspectives on collecting and provenance: the arts of China at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art / Jason Steuber -- CARP-ON: further thoughts on Chinese art provenance research / Nick Pearce.

This is a scholarly volume that provides a systematic overview of major histories of fine collections of Chinese art in the UK, US, and Canada, including collections built in the 18th through the 21st centuries.

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