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Collecting Objects / Excluding People

Name: Collecting Objects / Excluding People
Brand: State University of New York Press
SKU: 04795028
Availability: OutOfStock
Author: Lenore Metrick-Chen
ISBN: 9781438443263

Lenore Metrick-Chen

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04795028

Publishers State University of New York Press, July 2013

Combining aesthetic and political history, explores the influence of Chinese people and objects on A... Full description

Libristo code: 04795028

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Combining aesthetic and political history, explores the influence of Chinese people and objects on American visual culture.

In Collecting Objects / Excluding People, Lenore Metrick-Chen demonstrates an unknown impact of Chinese immigration upon nineteenth-century American art and visual culture. The American ideas of "Chineseness" ranged from a negative portrayal to an admiring one and these varied images had an effect on museum art collections and advertising images. They brought new ideas into American art theory, anticipating twentieth-century Modernism. Metrick-Chen shows that efforts to construct a cultural democracy led to the creation of unforeseen new categories for visual objects and unanticipated social changes. Collecting Objects / Excluding People reveals the power of images upon culture, the influence of media representation upon the lives of Chinese immigrants, and the impact of political ideology upon the definition of art itself.