Collecting objects/excluding people : Chinese subjects and American visual culture, 1830-1900 / Lenore Metrick-Chen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metrick-Chen, Lenore.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Chinese--Collectors and collecting--United States.

Art, Chinese.

Art museums--Social aspects--United States.

Art museums.

Art and race.

China--Foreign public opinion, American--History--19th century.

China.

China--Foreign public opinion, American--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Chinese subjects and American visual culture, 1830-1900

Place of Publication:

Albany [N.Y.] : State University of New York Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations and Credits

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Politics of Chinoiserie

The Power of Inaction

From Class to Race

The Chinese of the American Imagination

Conclusion

Notes

Name Index

subject Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-264) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781438443270

1438443277

OCLC:

817565636