Collectors, collections & collecting the arts of China
Subtitle: histories & challenges
By: edited by Jason Steuber, with Guolong Lai
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780813049144
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Chinese Art; Collectors and collecting; History; Chinese Art objects; Exhibitions
Other titles: Collectors, collections and collecting the arts of China
Description: 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.
Notes: "Based on a symposium co-organized by Guolong Lai and Jason Steuber."
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jason Steuber; title: Early Chicago chronicles of early Chinese art / Elinor Pearlstein; title: The early formation of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum's Chinese Collection / Deborah Del Gais; title: Art and science as competing values in the formation of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm / Magnus Fiskesjö; title: Stewart Culin: Chinese vernacular culture in America and the enchantment of the museum / Amy G. Poster; title: Florence Ayscough: pioneer promoter of modern Chinese painting in America / Zaixin Hong; title: C.T. Loo and the formation of the Chinese collection at the Freer Gallery of Art, 1915-1951 / Daisy Yiyou Wang; title: A tale of two tureens: the early Chinese bronze collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / Guolong Lai; title: A unique pair: the bronze rhinoceros and its collector, Avery Brundage / Jay Xu; title: Reinventing "China": provenance, categories, and the collecting of Chinese ceramics, 1910-2010 / Stacey Pierson; title: Objectives and challenges: past, present, and future of collecting Chinese antiquities in the Royal Ontario Museum / Chen Shen; title: Perspectives on collecting and provenance: the arts of China at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art / Jason Steuber; title: CARP-ON: further thoughts on Chinese art provenance research / Nick Pearce.