Title

The influence of Japanese expertise on the British reception of Chinese painting

Document Type

Book chapter

Source Publication

Beyond boundaries : East & West cross-cultural encounters

Publication Date

1-1-2011

First Page

88

Last Page

111

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars

Abstract

The encounters between Britain, Japan and China brought about by trade, travel and colonialism from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century significantly aroused the British interest in the collection and historical study of Oriental art. Following the vogue for a Chinese style in the architecture, garden, as well as fine and decorative arts of eighteenth-century Europe, Chinese export painting, ceramics, bronze, jade, lacquer, textile, and all kinds of Chinoiserie objects were imported in large quantities into Britain and sold through the East India Company, auction house, private collectors and art dealers in the nineteenth century. However, Chinese painting, which is the central and most typical Chinese art, remained unexplored in the West.

Additional Information

ISBN of the source publication: 9781443832946

Language

English

Recommended Citation

Huang, Y. L., Michelle. (2011). The influence of Japanese expertise on the British reception of Chinese painting. In Y. L. M. Huang (Ed.), Beyond boundaries: East & West cross-cultural encounters (pp. 88-111). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars.

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