China and the West : reconsidering Chinese reverse glass painting

Format:

Online Resource

Language:

English

Imprint:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2023] and ©2023

Subject:

Glass underpainting - China - History - 18th century
Glass underpainting - China - History - 19th century

Contributor:

Giese, Francine, editor
Ambrosio, Elisa, editor
Martimyanova, Alina, editor
Thomsen, Hans Bjarne, editor

ISBN:

9783110711776 and 311071177X

Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Preface / Danielle Elisseeff -- Introduction / Francine Giese, Hans Bjarne Thomsen, Elisa Ambrosio and Alina Martimyanova -- Chinese reverse glass painting and its materiality. From virtuosity to vernacularism: reversals of glass painting / Lihong Liu ; People in glass houses: the polite and polished in Georgian Britain / Christopher L. Maxwell ; Illusionistic practices among Les Arts du Feu in mid-eighteenth-century Canton / Kee Il Choi Jr. ; Light, reflection, and reverse glass painting at the Nguyen̂̃ Court / William H. Ma -- Transfer and transmediality. Glass painting in the collection of Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest (1739-1801) / Jan van Campen ; The governor of Surat and the apotheosis of Washington: Cantonese reverse glass paintings for early nineteenth-century American markets / Karina H. Corrigan ; Regarding the transfer of vernacular motifs and other common features of Chinese new year prints and Chinese reverse glass painting / Alina Martimyanova ; The Nightmare: case study of a deliberately inaccurate transmission to glass / Elisabeth Eibner -- Contextual studies of reverse glass painting. Varieties of replication in Chinese reverse glass painting / Jessica Lee Patterson ; Reflecting Asia: the reception of Chinese reverse glass painting in Britain, 1738-1770 / Patricia F. Ferguson ; Japanese reverse glass painting: the other East Asian tradition / Hans Bjarne Thomsen ; "In all of Beijing, there are no more than four paintings on glass that would fall within our consideration": Chinese reverse glass paintings from Czech collections and their contexts / Michaela Pejčochová -- Regional receptions of reverse glass painting. Reflections in a Chinese mirror: Westerners reinterpreted in early Cantonese glass painting / Patrick Conner ; Eighteenth-century Chinese reverse glass paintings in a Dutch collection: art and commodity / Rosalien van der Poel ; China and its south: Chinese ladies on glass and other topics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Java and Bali / Jérôme Samuel -- Pioneering research in Chinese reverse glass painting. A brief history of Chinese reverse glass painting / Thierry Audric ; Some styles in nineteenth and twentieth-century Chinese glass painting: a first approach / Rupprecht Mayer

Summary:

"With contributions from outstanding specialists in glass art and East Asian art history, this edited volume opens a cross-cultural dialogue on the hitherto little-studied medium of Chinese reverse glass painting. The first major survey of this form of East Asian art, the volume traces its long history, its local and global diffusion, and its artistic and technical characteristics. Manufactured for export to Europe and for local consumption within China, the fragile artworks studied in this volume constitute a paramount part of Chinese visual culture and attest to the intensive cultural and artistic exchange between China and the West"-- Provided by publisher

Access Restrictions:

Open Access