Book
Qing encounters: artistic exchanges between China and the West
(2015)
Abstract
Qing encounters: Artistic exchanges between China and the West' examines how the encounters between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. The essays in the volume reveal the extent to which images, artifacts, and natural specimens were traded and copied, and how these materials inflected both cultures' visions of novelty and pleasure, battle and power, and ways of seeing and representing. Artists and craftspeople on both continents borrowed and adapted forms, techniques, and modes of representation, producing deliberate, meaningful, and complex hybrid creations. By considering this reciprocity from both Eastern and Western perspectives, 'Qing encounters' offers a new and nuanced understanding of this critical period.
Keywords
- China,
- Europe,
- 18th and 19th centuries,
- art history,
- art exchange,
- East / West art exchange
Disciplines
Publication Date
2015
Publisher
Getty Research Institute
Series
Issues & debates
Citation Information
Petra T. Chu, Ning Ding and Lidy Jane Chu. Qing encounters: artistic exchanges between China and the West. Los Angeles, California(2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/petra_chu/2/