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Collecting Objects / Excluding People: Chinese Subjects and American Visual Culture, 1830-1900
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Combining aesthetic and political history, explores the influence of Chinese people and objects on American visual culture.
In Collecting Objects / Excluding People, Lenore Metrick-Chen demonstrates an unknown impact of Chinese immigration upon nineteenth-century American art and visual culture. The American ideas of "Chineseness" ranged from a negative portrayal to an admiring one and these varied images had an effect on museum art collections and advertising images. They brought new ideas ...