Elegant Gathering In The Apricot Garden. Anonymous, After Xie Huan (Chinese, Ca. 1370–Ca. 1450), Ca. 1437 Handscroll ; Ink And Color On Silk. Dimensions : Image : 14 5/8 X 95 3/4 In. (37.1 X 243.2 Cm) Credit Line: Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1989. Accession Number : 1989.141.3 – Metropolitan Museum Of Art
The Society for the History of Collecting vous invite à sa deuxième conférence en ligne.
Art in China/Chinese art in Europe: a comparative study of approaches to collecting in China and Europe, 1500-1900
Dr. Stacey Pierson
Jeudi 9 juillet 2020, 19h30
The study of collecting, as a sub-field of museum studies, is a subject that has its origins in European scholarship. From founding texts such as Susan Pearce’s On Collecting: an Investigation into Collecting in the European Tradition (1999) to more recent surveys like Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World (2014), collecting and its methods are usually interpreted through a Eurocentric lens. This is partly a consequence of the subject’s association with museum studies – just as the museum space is a European invention, so therefore is the practice of art collecting, it is assumed. But is it? In East Asia, collecting as a field of enquiry and practice has a very long history, much pre-dating its presumed European origins in ancient Greece and Rome. Continuer la lecture de « Conférence en ligne : Art in China/Chinese art in Europe »
