Collecting and Displaying China's "Summer Palace" in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France

ISBN-13: 9780367432782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 172 str.

Louise Tythacott

Opis

This volume explores the collecting and display of objects from the art collection of China’s eighteenth century Yuanmingyuan - or "Summer Palace" - in Western museums.

O autorze

Louise Tythacott is Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her books include Surrealism and the Exotic, The Lives of Chinese Objects: Buddhism, Imperialism and Display and Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches.