Collecting East and West / edited by Susan Bracken, Andrea M. Gáldy and Adriana Turpin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bracken, Susan.

Gáldy, Andrea M.

Turpin, Adriana.

Series:

Collecting Histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Collectors and collecting.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If collecting the rare and valuable is an entirely normal trait of human behaviour, amassing objects from far-away places has also long played a role in the history of collecting. "East" and "West", or "North" and "South", for that matter, are of course entirely relative to one's particular geographical position. Therefore, it is interesting that collecting exotic objects is an endeavour that unites humanity over millennia and round the globe. The ancient Assyrians did so as assiduously as eighteenth-century collectors in Paris or London; Chinese emperors collected Western art and artefacts at

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ABSTRACTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 8, 2013).

ISBN:

1-4438-5259-7

OCLC:

859834444