Louise Tythacott

The Lives of Chinese Objects (eBook, PDF)

Buddhism, Imperialism and Display

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Produktbeschreibung

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857452399
• Artikelnr.: 39598393

Autorenporträt

Inhaltsangabe

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List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Research and Serendipity
Objects, Meanings, Biographies
Objects and the Museum
Chapter 1.  Sacred Beings in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911)
dynasties
Construction: Births, Iconographies and Consecrations
Location: the Island and the Temple
Reception: Pilgrims, Lay Worshippers and Monks
Chapter 2. Trophies of War, 1844-1852
China and the World Outside
Edie's War: Disease, Death and the Deity of Compassion
Edie's Objects: the Significance of Things
From Public to Private, Sacred to Profane            
Chapter 3. Articles of Industry: the Great Exhibition of 1851
Articles of Imperial Ideology
China's Refusal
China at the Great Exhibition
Late Arrivals: Exhibiting Edie's Collection
Pilgrimage and Ritual at the Temple of Industry
China at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham
Chapter 4. Curiosities, Antiquities, Art Treasure, Commodities: 1854-1867
In the Cabinet of Gems: Objects of Bram Hertz, 1854-1856
Art Treasure: May to October 1857
Commodities: Sotheby's, 31 May 1854 and 24 February 1859
Objects of Joseph Mayer: Antiquities and Curiosities, 1856-1867
Chapter 5. Specimens of Ethnology and Race: Liverpool Museum, 1867-1929
From Private to Public
Objects in the Museum
At the Back of the Walker Art Gallery and in Gatty's Catalogue:  1882
Objects of the 'Mongolian' Race: 1894-1929
Chapter 6. Objects of Art, Archaeology and Oriental Antiquity: Liverpool
Museum, 1929-1996
Chinese Objects as 'Art'
Objects in War and Store: 'An Exhibition of Official Neglect'
Objects of Archaeology: 1940-1966
Objects of Antiquity: 1966-1996
Guanyin Rediscovered: Objects of Chinese Metalwork and Connoisseurship,
1970s-1990s    
Chapter 7. Objects of Curation and Conservation, 1996-2005
New Identities
Objects of Conservation
Objects of 'Contact' and 'Encounter'
Chapter 8. Future Lives: Liverpool or China
Objects in Liverpool
Objects in China
Postscript: Confessions of a Former Curator
Bibliography
Index