Metrick-Chen Collecting Objects / Excluding People

Chinese Subjects and American Visual Culture, 1830-1900
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4327-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Metrick-Chen, Lenore

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations and Credits
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Politics of Chinoiserie: The Disappearance of Chinese Objects

Section I. The Early Nineteenth Century

The Presence of Chinese Objects in the United States
Opium, Politics, and American Perceptions of the Chinese
The Chinese in the United States
Americans Assess China’s Artistic Ability
The Influence of the Chinese Aesthetic on American Art

Section II. The Late Nineteenth Century

Regarding “Oriental”: Whose Aesthetic Is It
American Confusion of Japanese and Chinese Objects
Politicized Perceptions of the Chinese
Politics Become Aesthetic Criteria

2. The Power of Inaction: Chinese Objects and the Transformation of the American Definition of Art

Section I. Chinese Objects and the Aesthetics of Museums

Aesthetic Morality and Nationalism, America’s Ruskin-Based Art
The Education Premise: Inaugurating Two American Art Museums
Expanding the Canon of Art; Plaster Casts as an Art Form

Section II. Chinese Objects and the Business of Museums

Art Museums Founders and the Issues of the Public
Museums, Art, and Commodities
Merchandising Art
The Change of Paradigm

3. From Class to Race: The New York Times Reconstructs “Chinese”

Section I. A Brief Historical Contextualization

Introduction
Newspaper History and The New York Times
A Glance at History of Labor, Politicians, and Anti-Chinese Agitation

Section II. Creating a “Them”: The Strategies of Demonization

Part Becomes the Whole: Turning Chinese into Coolies
Hordes
Heathen
Barbarity and Contamination
Sex and Drugs
Ignorance
Effeminizing the Chinese Men
Chinese into Coolies into Demonized Race

Section III. Defining the “Us”: The Exclusion Debate: Four Voices Struggle Over Imaging Chinese

The Exclusion Debate: Four Voices Struggle Over Imaging Chinese
The Opposing Race Arguments form the Congressional Debates
The Times Doublespeak: Blame California, Profess Fatigue
The Chinese View through Word and Action

4. The Chinese of American Imagination: Nineteenth-Century Trade Card Images

Section I: Trade Card Images

Section II: The Politics of Chromolithography

Power Struggles Over Definitions of Art
Between Two Worlds: The Dual Role of Trade Cars
An Addition to Visual Language: Floating Signifiers

Section III. The Chinese Figure as Outsider

Dislodged Objects as a New Art
Paper Nations
The Safety of Exotic Distance

Section IV. The Chinese Figure and American Self-Definition

American, Un-American
Disjunctions, and Collisions: The Iconography of Displacement
Hybridity, Cultural Margins, and Incorporation

Conclusion
Notes
Name Index
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lenore Metrick-Chen is Assistant Professor of Art History at Drake University.