Collecting Japanese art in Czech lands in the long 19th century with a specialemphasize to Japanese decorative art.

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Collecting Japanese art in Czech lands in the long 19th century with a specialemphasize to Japanese decorative art.

Original language description

Relatively little research exists on the history of Japanese and Chinese collections in the Czech lands in the 19th century. After the Second World War, Czechoslovakia was isolated from the world for more than forty years and its extensive collections have only slowly come to light, even since the Velvet Revolution of 1989. An interesting aspect of the study of local collecting of Asian art in the 19thcentury is determining how the items found their way into these collections, where, when, and by whom they were purchased and what their fates were. Such research, however, is a long process that requires patience and often yields uncertain results, since older collections, in particular, lack archival material. If such material exists – contemporary inventories, for example – it is sometimes very difficult to match it to surviving exhibits, as their descriptions are usually perfunctory and general. The chapter describes the growth of old aristocratic collections in the 19th century and deals with the drawing and watercolour paintings as a source for the study of these collections. I will focus on the first Czech museum collections of Japanese art founded in the second half of the 19th century under the influence of world expositions in London, Paris and Vienna. In addition it deals with new trends in collecting Asian art in general and Japanese art in particular in the late 19th century and beginning of the 20th century in connection with increasingly accessible travel activities around the world before the First World War.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Transmitters of Another Culture. Research on Japan-related Overseas Collections from the 19th Century.

ISBN

978-4-653-04384-3

Number of pages of the result

20

Pages from-to

127-137,317–326

Number of pages of the book

326

Publisher name

Rinsen Book Co.

Place of publication

Tokyo

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