British Modernism and Chinoiserie
This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism. Traditionally defined as a decorative style that conjured a fanciful and idealized notion of China, chinoiserie was revived in in London's avant-garde …
Migrating artists and artwork achieved the successful fashioning of the Belvedere, Prince Eugene of Savoy's (1663–1736) magnificent summer palace in Vienna designed by the leading architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (1668–1745) and constructed between 1697 and 1723. A manifes…
A Taste for China' offers an account of how literature of the long eighteenth century generated a model of English selfhood dependent on figures of China. It shows how various genres of writing in this period call upon 'things Chinese' to define the tasteful English subject of m…
"Challenging existing narratives of the relationship between China and Europe, this study establishes how modern English identity evolved through strategies of identifying with rather than against China. Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese objects througho…
"Challenging existing narratives of the relationship between China and Europe, this study establishes how modern English identity evolved through strategies of identifying with rather than against China. Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese objects througho…