Collecting Asian Art, Cultural Politics and Transregional Networks in Twentieth-Century Central Europe

Year

2024

Publisher

Leuven University Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-9-46166-540-9

Link

Last Update

27-May-2026

Keywords

Art & Art History ; Asian Studies ; Museum Studies

Description

Examining collections of Asian art across Europe allows for research on multiple levels and for a series of narratives to unfold. For example, one can retrace how European merchants have imported luxury goods via overland and maritime trade routes since medieval times.¹ Alternatively, it is possible to look at the mechanisms by which Asian portable objects and paintings were moved and traded along colonial routes to Europe, where such items usually arrived both at imperial metropolises and at other capital cities, from whence they were distributed across Europe and even to North America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.² This...