Collecting Objects / Excluding People : Chinese Subjects and American Visual Culture, 1830-1900.
Lenore. Metrick-Chen
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (298 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Collecting Objects/Excluding People: Chinese Subjects and American Visual Culture, 1830-1900 -- Collecting Objects/Excluding People: Chinese Subjects and American Visual Culture, 1830-1900 -- Contents -- Illustrations and Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Politics of Chinoiserie: The Disappearance of Chinese Objects -- Section I. The Early Nineteenth Century -- 1. The Presence of Chinese Objects in the United States -- 2. Opium, Politics, and American Perceptions of the Chinese -- 3. The Chinese in the United States -- 4. Americans Assess China's Artistic Ability -- 5. The Influence of the Chinese Aesthetic on American Art -- Section II. The Late Nineteenth Century -- 1. Regarding "Oriental": Whose Aesthetic Is It? -- 2. American Confusion of Japanese and Chinese Objects -- 3. Politicized Perceptions of the Chinese -- 4. Politics Become Aesthetic Criteria -- Chapter Two: The Power of Inaction: Chinese Objects and the Transformation of the American Definition of Art -- Section I. Chinese Objects and the Aesthetics of Museums -- 1. Aesthetic Morality and Nationalism, America's Ruskin-Based Art -- 2. The Educational Premise: Inaugurating Two American Art Museums -- 3. Expanding the Canon of Art -- Plaster Casts as an Art Form -- Section II. Chinese Objects and the Business of Museums -- 1. Art Museums Founders and the Issue of the Public -- 2. Museums, Art, and Commodities -- 3. Merchandising Art -- 4. The Change of Paradigm -- Chapter Three: From Class to Race: The New York Times Reconstructs "Chinese" -- Section I. A Brief Historical Contextualization -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Newspaper History and The New York Times -- 3. A Glance at History of Labor, Politicians, and Anti-Chinese Agitation -- Section II. Creating a "Them": The Strategies of Demonization -- 1. Part Becomes the Whole: Turning Chinese into Coolies.. - 2. Hordes -- 3. Heathen -- 4. Barbarity and Contamination -- 5. Sex and Drugs -- 6. Ignorance -- 7. Effeminizing the Chinese Man -- 8. Chinese into Coolies into Demonized Race -- Section III. Defining the "Us" -- 1. The Exclusion Debate: Four Voices Struggle Over Imaging Chinese -- 2. The Opposing Race Arguments from the Congressional Debates -- 3. The Times Doublespeak: Blame California, Profess Fatigue -- 4. The Chinese View through Word and Action -- Chapter Four: The Chinese of the American Imagination: Nineteenth-Century Trade Card Images -- Section I. Trade card images -- Section II. The Politics of Chromolithography -- 1. Power Struggles Over Definitions of Art -- 2. Between Two Worlds: The Dual Role of Trade Cards -- 3. An Addition to Visual Language: Floating Signifiers -- Section III. The Chinese Figure as Outsider -- 1. Dislodged Objects as a New Art -- 2. Paper Nations -- 3. The Safety of Exotic Distance -- Section IV. The Chinese Figure and American Self-Definition -- 1. American, Un-American -- 2. Disjunctions, and Collisions: The Iconography of Displacement -- 3. Hybridity, Cultural Margins, and Incorporation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Name Index -- Subject Index.. - Combining aesthetic and political history, explores the influence of Chinese people and objects on American visual culture.
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