"Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines transnational relations and intercultural exchange between modern Europe and Asia. At the core of the study are three major collectors, Enrico (Henri) Cernuschi, Emile Guimet, and Edmond de Goncou…
Traditional Chinese architecture: twelve essays
by Fu, Xinian
fromThe Princeton-China series
Fu Xinian is considered by many to be the world's leading historian of Chinese architecture. He is an expert on every type of Chinese architecture from every period through the nineteenth century, and his work is at the cutting edge of the field. This wide-ranging book gathers t…
Interrogates the relationship between different kinds of modern art and different kinds of cultural contexts in Asian and Pacific countries. Thirteen essays examine how the modern is formed by artists in relation to other traditions and practices, Western or folk, the audience a…
During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended. In these precarious intervals, powerful images emerge. This book asks: what happens to art0during a state of emergency? Investigating the uneasy relationship between aesthetics and political history, Terracciano …
Vom 12. Oktober 2005 bis zum 9. Januar 2006 wird im MuséeGuimet in Paris eine außergewöhnliche Ausstellung mit dem Titel"Kunstschätze aus Vietnam ... Die Champa-Skulptur" stattfinden. Dieses Ereignis wird erstmalig die Sammlungen des französischenMusée Guimet, der Réunion des Mu…
Vom 12. Oktober 2005 bis zum 9. Januar 2006 wird im MuséeGuimet in Paris eine außergewöhnliche Ausstellung mit dem Titel"Kunstschätze aus Vietnam ... Die Champa-Skulptur" stattfinden. Dieses Ereignis wird erstmalig die Sammlungen des französischenMusée Guimet, der Réunion des Mu…