Exhibiting East Asian Art in a Global Context
Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, and Art Media Resources, Inc., 2026. Hardbound, with dust jacket. 408 pages, 16 chapters. Item #45941
ISBN: 9781588861689
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This volume brings together leading curators and scholars to explore the global formation and ongoing transformation of East Asian art history. Originating in a symposium at the University of Chicago's Center for the Art of East Asia, these essays investigate how collecting practices, exhibition histories, and museum frameworks in such cities as Boston, Paris, London, and beyond have shaped and reshaped the understanding of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean art. By analyzing exhibitions as key sites of cultural encounter and art historical discourse, the contributors illuminate how curatorial strategies, visual arguments, and institutional contexts have constructed-and continually redefined-the category of "East Asia." Addressing colonial legacies, cultural translation, and the challenges of globalized museology, this collection rethinks what it means to exhibit East Asian art on the world stage. Essential reading for students, scholars, and museum professionals, this book offers new insights into the stakes and possibilities of curating East Asian art today.
Contributions by:
Boyoung Chang, Fletcher Coleman, Anna Jackson, Kenji Kajiya, Hiromi Kinoshita, Ling-en Lu, Foong Ping, Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, Chen Shen, Hsueh-man Shen, Peggy Wang, Xiaojin Wu, Pao-Yi Yang, Josh Yiu, Christina Yu, and Fan Jeremy Zhang
CONTENTS
Introduction by Chelsea Foxwell and Wei-Cheng Lin
I. A HISTORICAL TRAJECTORY
1. Pattern and Design: Representing Japan at the Victoria and Albert Museum
by Anna Jackson
2. Re/presenting Japanese Art in Seattle
by Xiaojin Wu
3. Curatorial Research, Collection Building, and International Relations: A Brief History of Exhibiting Chinese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
by Christina Yu Yu
4. Chinese Art in Transnational Display
by Foong Ping
5. Multiculturalism and Globalization: Exploring New Approaches to Chinese Art Exhibition in Western Museums
by Chen Shen
II. REIMAGINING EAST ASIA (CHINA) THROUGH EXHIBITION
6. Aesthetics and Ideologies of Displaying Chinese Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, 1890s–1950s
by Pao-Yi Yang
7. Buddhist Temple Reimagined: Building the Chinese Temple Room in the 1930s
by Ling-en Lu
8. Early American Exhibitions of Rubbings of Sculpture from the Longmen Grottos
by Fletcher Coleman
9. Chinese Contexts: Creating an Interactive Application for the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Coffered Ceiling
by Hiromi Kinoshita
III. SEARCHING FOR EAST ASIAN IDENTITIES
10. Increasing the Resolution of Context: Postwar and Contemporary Japanese Art in America, 1989–2013
by Kenji Kajiya
11. Between Identity and Individuality: Contemporary Korean Art Exhibitions in American Museums
by Boyoung Chang
12. Constituting “Contemporary” and “Chinese” Art through Exhibition
by Peggy Wang
Ⅳ. STUDIES OF CURATORIAL PERSPECTIVES
13. In Search of Eccentricity: Chinese Painting in 1960s North America
by Joseph Scheier-Dolberg
14. Chinese Art Under Mongol Rule: Narrating Stories of China’s Conquest Dynasties
by Fan Jeremy Zhang
15. Too Many Stories to (Not) Be Told: A Case Study of the Belitung Shipwreck Exhibitions
by Hsueh-man Shen
16. A Study of Perspective: the Folly and Peril of Taking Ai Weiwei's Art Seriously
by Josh Yiu
Index
About the Editors and Contributing Authors.
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