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 |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Art, Asian |
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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.
Laurence Sickman
Title | Laurence Sickman PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Churchman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Art museum directors |
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"The death of Laurence Sickman deprives The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Kansas City community of a distinguished scholar of Chinese art and an outstanding leader in the field of American art museums...This small volume is both memorial and celebration. It is intended as a tribute to the accomplishments of a much-respected friend and guide" -- From foreword.
National Union Catalog
Title | National Union Catalog PDF eBook |
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Publisher | |
Pages | 1032 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Union catalogs |
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
PRESENTATION OF THE CHARLES-LANG-FREER-MEDAL.
Title | PRESENTATION OF THE CHARLES-LANG-FREER-MEDAL. PDF eBook |
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Pages | 40 |
Release | 1965 |
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Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage
Title | Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Dong Wang |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2020-06-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1538141124 |
This thoroughly researched book provides the first comprehensive history of how a UNESCO World Heritage site on the Central China Plain, Longmen’s caves and the Buddhist statuary of Luoyang, was rediscovered in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on original research and archival sources in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, and Swedish, as well as extensive fieldwork, Dong Wang traces the ties between cultural heritage and modernity, detailing how this historical monument has been understood from antiquity to the present. She highlights the manifold traffic and expanded contact between China and other countries as these nations were reorienting themselves in order to adapt their own cultural traditions to newly industrialized and industrializing societies. Unknown to much of the world, Longmen and its mesmerizing modern history takes readers to the heartland of China, known as “Chinese Babylon” a century ago. With remarkable depth and breadth, this book unravels both a bygone and a continuing human pursuit of artefacts—shared, spiritual, modern, and above all beautiful that have linked so many lives, Chinese and foreign.
Dictionary Catalog of the Library of the Freer Gallery of Art. Smithonsonian Institution, Washington
Title | Dictionary Catalog of the Library of the Freer Gallery of Art. Smithonsonian Institution, Washington PDF eBook |
Author | Freer Gallery of Art. Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 828 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Art |
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