《中国外销画(1750s-1880s)(英文版)》是作者李世庄过去十年间在中国的外销艺术研究之成果,本书广泛使用了不少中外原始史料,搜罗了很多珍贵又从未发表过的外销艺术品,目的是为读者展示中国外销画之重要性和影响,对中国艺术史的书写别具参考价值。全书通过剖析学术界就中国外销画研究之种种问题,以及当前海内外就此研究的状况,反映外销画是跟中外贸易和文化交流有多重关系的艺术品。作者研究十八至十九世纪外销画的发展史,从侧门展示了中国外销话在艺术史研究中的重要性和影响。本书对我们了解近现代外销画的发展和贸易有较大帮助,对从事近现代艺术史研究人员来说具有较强的参考价值作用。
Introduction
1 Current scholarships on the study of China trade painting
1.1 James Orange's The Chater Collection
1.2 Chinese Export Art in the Eighteenth Century by Margaret Jourdain
1.3 Carl Crossman's The China Trade
1.4 Craig Clunas's writings on Chinese export art
1.5 Major exhibition catalogues and research papers on Chinese export art
2 Moulding for the West
2.1 Chinqua--Early Chinese modellers working at Madras
2.2 Clay portraits of the Danes by Chinese modellers
2.3 Chitqua, "the modeller who steals likeness"
3 Adoption of Western media by Chinese trade painters
3.1 Reverse glass paintings in mid-eighteenth century Canton
3.2 Early Chinese reverse paintings collected in The Chinese Pavilion
3.3 Spoilum / Spillem--The earliest known trade painter in Canton
4 Desire for things Chinese
4.1 Pu-Qua's influence to Masons The Costume of China and other engravings
4.2 Representations of street characters
4.3 Duplicates of Pu-Qua's drawings
4.4 A New discovery on Mackson's Pu-Qua's drawings
5 Lamqua, the "Thomas Lawrence of China"
5.1 How many Lamquas?
5.2 "Ihe identity of Lamqua
5.3 Lamqua vs George Chinnery
5.4 Images of Lamqua with Western eyes
5.5 Beyond commerce--Lamqua's medical pictures
6 Oil portraits by Lamqua
6.1 Portraits of Westerners
6.2 Portraits of Chinese officials and merchants
6.3 Diplomatic exchange of portraits between the Chinese and the Westerners
6.4 Lamqua's view and practice on western style portrait
6.5 Lamqua's painter studio--The secret of Chinese oil painting unveiled
6.6 Relocation of art business to Hong Kong
7 Flourish of China trade painting market since 1840s
7.1 Sunqua and his studio
7.2 Assorted views of China by Tingqua's studio
7.3 Implication of Samqua's drawings
7.4 Monumental landscapes by Youqua
7.5 Nam Cheong and views of Whampoa
7.6 Inspiration from and integration with photography
Bibliography
Appendix 1 Pu-Qua's drawings in Victoria & Albert Museum
Appendix 2 George Henry Mason's The Costume of China, 1800
Appendix 3 PEM/E83895A Drawings of Chinese traders
Appendix 4 PEM/E83942 Dessin de la Chine
Appendix 5 Drawings of Chinese traders in the Phillips Library
Appendix 6 Tinqua's album leaves, d. 1851
Appendix 7 Ink drawings by Samqua, d. before 1847
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