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Shaping Chinese Art History: Pang Yuanji and His Painting Collection

Shaping Chinese Art History: Pang Yuanji and His Painting Collection

Burnett, Katharine P.

Hardcover

Series: Cambria Sinophone World

Art HistoryChinese HistoryChinese Art

ISBN10: 1604979917
ISBN13: 9781604979916
Publisher: Cambria Pr
Published: Sep 28 2020
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania).

*Includes color images.

Although studies of collectors and collections are on the rise, the collector in China with not only the largest number of high-quality antique paintings but also the most comprehensive and scholarly record of his collection has largely been left unexamined. Pang Yuanji (1864-1949) is that collector, and this book addresses the situation. Analysis of Pang's collection reveals not only his personal taste but also how his taste was an expression of the Qing dynasty canon. As such, Pang's taste is shown to be standard for the time, and then the standard upheld in new collections abroad. When Pang's renowned collection became a source for object acquisition by U.S. collectors and museums new to Chinese art (especially Charles Lang Freer and the Freer Gallery), this taste was inevitably absorbed and disseminated through museum exhibitions and scholarly research and teaching. The inadvertent effect of this was that the new field of Chinese art history developed around the Qing canon, a canon that survived well into the latter half of the twentieth century. Knowing about Pang Yuanji and his collection thus helps readers better understand some of the forces at work in shaping Chinese art history today.

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