Looking East
Subtitle: Rubens's encounter with Asia
By: edited by Stephanie Schrader, with contributions by Burglind Jungmann, Kim Young-Jae, and Christine Göttler
Contributors: J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781606061312
Subjects: J. Paul Getty Museum; Criticism and interpretation; Exhibitions
Description: "Peter Paul Rubens' fascinating depiction of a man wearing Korean costume of around 1617, in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, has been considered noteworthy since it was made. This large drawing was copied in Rubens' studio during his own time and circulated as a reproductive print in the eighteenth century. Despite the drawing's renown, however, the reasons why it was made and whether it actually depicts a specific Asian person remain a mystery. The intriguing story that develops involves a shipwreck, an unusual hat, the earliest trade between Europe and Asia, the trafficking of Asian slaves, and the role of Jesuit missionaries in Asia."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes index.

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Looking East: Rubens's encounter with Asia, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from March 5 to June 9, 2013."
Table of contents: title: The many identities of Rubens's Man in Korean costume: New perspectives on old interpretations / Stephanie Schrader; title: Looking at the clothing of Rubens's Man in Korean costume / Kim Young-Jae; title: Implicit understanding: Rubens and the representation of the Jesuit missions in Asia / Stephanie Schrader; title: Korean contacts with Europeans in Beijing, and European inspiration in early-modern Korean art / Burglind Jungmann; title: The place of the "exotic" in early-seventeenth-century Antwerp / Christine Gottler.