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Titre(s) : Collecting and displaying China's "Summer Palace" in the West [Texte imprimé] : the Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France / edited by Louise Tythacott
Publication : London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-172 p.) : ill. ; 26 cm
Collection : The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950
Lien à la collection : The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950
Note(s) : Bibliogr. à la fin de chaque contribution. Index
"In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops
looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China--the
Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands
of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects
may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan--and many of these are now
scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums. With contributions
from leading specialists, this is the first book to focus on the collecting and display
of "Summer Palace" material over the past 150 years in museums in Britain and France.
It examines the way museums placed their own cultural, political and aesthetic concerns
upon Yuanmingyuan material, and how displays--especially those at the Royal Engineers
Museum in Kent, the National Museum of Scotland and the Musée Chinois at the Château
of Fontainebleau--tell us more about European representations and images of China,
than they do about the Yuanmingyuan itself."--Provided by publisher
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Tythacott, Louise. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Objets d'art -- Chine -- Collectionneurs et collections
Art -- Chine -- Collectionneurs et collections
Pékin (Chine) -- Yuan ming yuan
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781315113395. - ISBN 1315113392. - ISBN 9781351624893. - ISBN 135162489X. -
ISBN 9781351624886. - ISBN 1351624881. - ISBN 9781351624909 (erroné). - ISBN 1351624903
(erroné). - ISBN 9781138080553 (erroné). - ISBN 113808055 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45621239f
Notice n° :
FRBNF45621239
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Table des matières : Part Part I Overviews -- ; chapter 1 The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects / / LOUISE TYTHACOTT
; ; chapter 2 The Afterlives of a Ruin: The Yuanmingyuan in China and the West / /
JAMES L. HEVIA ; ; chapter 3 From the Summer Palace 1860: Provenance and Politics
/ / NICK PEARCE ; ; part Part II The Yuanmingyuan in Britain -- ; chapter 4 The Yuanmingyuan
and Design Reform in Britain / / KATE HILL ; ; chapter 5 2True Beauty of Form and
Chaste Embellishment3: Summer Palace Loot and Chinese Porcelain Collecting in Nineteenth-century
Britain / / STACEY PIERSON ; ; chapter 6 2Chinese Gordon3 and the Royal Engineers
Museum / / JAMES SCOTT ; ; chapter 7 2Rose-water Upon His Delicate Hands3: Imperial
and Imperialist Readings of the Hope Grant Ewer / / KEVIN MCLOUGHLIN ; ; part Part
III The Yuanmingyuan in France -- ; chapter 8 Henri Bertin (1720-1792) and Images
of the Yuanmingyuan in Eighteenth-century France / / JOHN FINLAY ; ; chapter 9 Empress
Eugenie's Chinese Museum at the Chateau of Fontainebleau: An Unusual Decor in the
2House of the Ages3 / / VINCENT DROGUET ; ; chapter 10 Yuanmingyuan on Display: Ornamental
Aesthetics at the Musee Chinois / / GREG M. THOMAS.
