Author: Justin M. Jacobs
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022671201X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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From the 1790s until World War I, Western museums filled their shelves with art and antiquities from around the world. These objects are now widely regarded as stolen from their countries of origin, and demands for their repatriation grow louder by the day. In The Compensations of Plunder, Justin M. Jacobs brings to light the historical context of the exodus of cultural treasures from northwestern China. Based on a close analysis of previously neglected archives in English, French, and Chinese, Jacobs finds that many local elites in China acquiesced to the removal of art and antiquities abroad, understanding their trade as currency for a cosmopolitan elite. In the decades after the 1911 Revolution, however, these antiquities went from being “diplomatic capital” to disputed icons of the emerging nation-state. A new generation of Chinese scholars began to criminalize the prior activities of archaeologists, erasing all memory of the pragmatic barter relationship that once existed in China. Recovering the voices of those local officials, scholars, and laborers who shaped the global trade in antiquities, The Compensations of Plunder brings historical grounding to a highly contentious topic in modern Chinese history and informs heated debates over cultural restitution throughout the world.
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368818147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 713
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author: John Hungerford Pollen
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
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This brilliant work by English writer on crafts and furniture, John Hungerford Pollen (1820–1902), is an interesting study of ancient and modern furniture and woodwork. He carefully reviews them and carries us back to the days in which these pieces of artistic furniture were made. This work makes the reader familiar to the taste and techniques, the habits and the needs, of those olden ages which eventually leads to a comparison between the furniture and woodwork of that era and the modern times. Contents include: Furniture Ancient and Modern Antique: Egypt, Nineveh and Greece The Romans Byzantine Art The Middle Ages The Fifteenth Century The Renaissance in Italy Renaissance in England, Flanders, France, Germany, and Spain Tudor and Stuart Styles Furniture of the Eighteenth Century Changes of Taste and Style Appendix: Names of the Designers of Woodwork and Makers of Furniture
Author: C. Black
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382507293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Languages : en
Pages : 934
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Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
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Author: Robert Edward Dell
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Author: Great Britain Department of Science and Art
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Languages : en
Pages : 834
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