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Author:   Louise Tythacott (SOAS / University of London)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.564kg
ISBN:  

9781138080553

ISBN 10:   1138080551
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   31 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments List of Contributors Part I: Overviews 1. The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects Louise Tythacott 2. The Afterlives of a Ruin: The Yuanmingyuan in China and the West James L. Hevia 3. From The Summer Palace 1860: Provenance and Politics Nick Pearce Part II: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain 4. The Yuanmingyuan and Design Reform in Britain Kate Hill 5. ""True Beauty of Form and Chaste Embellishment"": Summer Palace Loot and Chinese Porcelain Collecting in Nineteenth-century Britain Stacey Pierson 6. ""Chinese Gordon"" and the Royal Engineers Museum James Scott 7. ""Rose-water Upon His Delicate Hands"": Imperial and Imperialist Readings of the Hope Grant Ewer Kevin McLoughlin Part III: The Yuanmingyuan in France 8. Henri Bertin (1720-1792) and Images of the Yuanmingyuan in Eighteenth-century France John Finlay 9. Empress Eugénie’s Chinese Museum at the Château of Fontainebleau: An Unusual Décor in the ""House of the Ages"" Vincent Droguet 10. Yuanmingyuan on Display: Ornamental Aesthetics at the Musée Chinois Greg M. Thomas Index"

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The final essay is a measured and thought-provoking examination of the placement and understanding of the Yuanmingyuan objects in the Fontainebleau displays, highlighting the focus on `ornamentation' as a principle of choice, and the readiness of the Empress and her architect to adapt and install objects in surprising ways, interpreted by Thomas as `a sincere attempt by Eugenie and her craftsmen to generate aesthetic deialogue with imperial Chinese culture. - Beth McKillop, Newsletter Number 26, May 2018

Author Information

Louise Tythacott is Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her books include Surrealism and the Exotic, The Lives of Chinese Objects: Buddhism, Imperialism and Display and Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches.

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