China and the West : : Reconsidering Chinese Reverse Glass Painting.

• Superior document: Arts du Verre / Glass Art / Glaskunst Series ; v.1
• Author: Ambrosio, Elisa.
• TeilnehmendeR: Giese, Francine.; Martimyanova, Alina.; Thomsen, Hans Bjarne.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2022.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Arts du Verre / Glass Art / Glaskunst Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTING AND ITS MATERIALITY -- 1 FROM VIRTUOSITY TO VERNACULARISM REVERSALS OF GLASS PAINTING -- 2 PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES THE POLITE AND POLISHED IN GEORGIAN BRITAIN -- 3 ILLUSIONISTIC PRACTICES AMONG LES ARTS DU FEU IN MID-EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CANTON -- 4 LIGHT, REFLECTION, AND REVERSE GLASS PAINTING AT THE NGUYÊN COURT -- TRANSFER AND TRANSMEDIALITY -- 5 GLASS PAINTING IN THE COLLECTION OF ANDREAS EVERARDUS VAN BRAAM HOUCKGEEST (1739-1801) -- 6 THE GOVERNOR OF SURAT AND THE APOTHEOSIS OF WASHINGTON CANTONESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTINGS FOR EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN MARKETS -- 7 REGARDING THE TRANSFER OF VERNACULAR MOTIFS AND OTHER COMMON FEATURES OF CHINESE NEW YEAR PRINTS AND CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTING -- 8 THE NIGHTMARE CASE STUDY OF A DELIBERATELY INACCURATE TRANSMISSION TO GLASS -- CONTEXTUAL STUDIES OF REVERSE GLASS PAINTING -- 9 VARIETIES OF REPLICATION IN CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTING -- 10 REFLECTING ASIA THE RECEPTION OF CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTING IN BRITAIN, 1738-1770 -- 11 JAPANESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTING THE OTHER EAST ASIAN TRADITION -- 12 "IN ALL OF BEIJING, THERE ARE NO MORE THAN FOUR PAINTINGS ON GLASS THAT WOULD FALL WITHIN OUR CONSIDERATION" CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTINGS FROM CZECH COLLECTIONS AND THEIR CONTEXTS -- REGIONAL RECEPTIONS OF REVERSE GLASS PAINTING -- 13 REFLECTIONS IN A CHINESE MIRROR WESTERNERS REINTERPRETED IN EARLY CANTONESE GLASS PAINTING -- 14 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTINGS IN A DUTCH COLLECTION ART AND COMMODITY -- 15 CHINA AND ITS SOUTH CHINESE LADIES ON GLASS AND OTHER TOPICS IN NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY JAVA AND BALI -- PIONEERING RESEARCH IN CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTING -- 16 A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTING.

17 SOME STYLES IN NINETEENTHAND TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINESE GLASS PAINTING A FIRST APPROACH -- APPENDIX -- LIST OF AUTHORS -- INDEX OF PLACES AND PEOPLE -- CREDITS.