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Siting China in Germany:

Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie and Its Modern Legacy
  • ISBN-13: 9780271082370
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Christiane Hertel
  • Price: AUD $271.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/01/2020
  • Format: Hardback 304 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]
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Introduces and interprets the complex history of German chinoiserie in the long eighteenth century, focusing on its emergence in literature and the arts.



“In this beautifully written book, Christiane Hertel ‘sites’ China across a range of eighteenth-century German court arts, allowing the reader to travel between imagery as varied as silhouettes, the ‘Chinese’ village of Mulang, commedia dell’arte, and dining utensils. Each ‘siting’ creates, or is informed by, frames, mediations, imitations, and assimilations that challenge our conceptions of what ‘China’ might have meant in the eighteenth century. The work’s most important contribution is its ability to open the decorative arts to interpretive acts akin to sophisticated textual readings.”

—Dawn Odell, Lewis and Clark College

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