Fifth Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal
Title | Fifth Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 27 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Art, Chinese |
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Fifth Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal
Title | Fifth Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal PDF eBook |
Author | Freer Gallery of Art (Smithsonian Institution, SI, Washington D.C.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 27 |
Release | 1973 |
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Fifth Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal, September 11, 1973
Title | Fifth Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal, September 11, 1973 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Art, Asian |
ISBN |
Eleventh Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal, April 5, 2001
Title | Eleventh Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal, April 5, 2001 PDF eBook |
Author | Oleg Grabar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2001 |
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ISBN |
PRESENTATION OF THE CHARLES-LANG-FREER-MEDAL.
Title | PRESENTATION OF THE CHARLES-LANG-FREER-MEDAL. PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1965 |
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ISBN |
First Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal
Title | First Presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal PDF eBook |
Author | Freer Gallery of Art |
Publisher | |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | Art, Asian |
ISBN |
The Great Chinese Art Transfer
Title | The Great Chinese Art Transfer PDF eBook |
Author | Michael St. Clair |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2016-04-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1611479118 |
This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in the West, in particular to the United States. As China’s last dynasty was weakening and collapsing from 1860 into the early years of the twentieth century, China’s internal chaos allowed imperial and private Chinese collections to be scattered, looted and sold. A remarkable and varied group of Westerners entered the country, had their eyes opened to centuries of Chinese creativity and gathered up paintings, bronzes and ceramics, as well as sculptures, jades and bronzes. The migration to America and Europe of China’s art is one of the greatest outflows of a culture’s artistic heritage in human history. A good deal of the art procured by collectors and dealers, some famous and others little known but all remarkable in individual ways, eventually wound up in American and European museums. Today some of the art still in private hands is returning to China via international auctions and aggressive purchases by Chinese millionaires.