Collecting Objects / Excluding People: Chinese Subjects and American Visual Culture, 1830-1900 - Couverture souple

Metrick-Chen, Lenore

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ISBN 10 : 1438443269 ISBN 13 : 9781438443263

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2013

Synopsis

Combining aesthetic and political history, explores the influence of Chinese people and objects on American visual culture.

In Collecting Objects / Excluding People, Lenore Metrick-Chen demonstrates an unknown impact of Chinese immigration upon nineteenth-century American art and visual culture. The American ideas of “Chineseness” ranged from a negative portrayal to an admiring one and these varied images had an effect on museum art collections and advertising images. They brought new ideas into American art theory, anticipating twentieth-century Modernism. Metrick-Chen shows that efforts to construct a cultural democracy led to the creation of unforeseen new categories for visual objects and unanticipated social changes. Collecting Objects / Excluding People reveals the power of images upon culture, the influence of media representation upon the lives of Chinese immigrants, and the impact of political ideology upon the definition of art itself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lenore Metrick-Chen is Assistant Professor of Art History at Drake University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438443269
• ISBN 13: 9781438443263
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 326
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• Personne responsable: non disponible