Acquiring Cultures : : Histories of World Art on Western Markets / / ed. by Bénédicte Savoy, Charlotte Guichard, Christine Howald.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Bodenstein, Felicity,; Chang, Ting,; Charpy, Manuel,; Dias, Nélia,; Eaton, Natasha,; Fine, Jonathan,; Guichard, Charlotte,; Howald, Christine,; Jones, Philip,; Maezaki, Masako Yamamoto,; Ogbechie, Sylvester Okwunodu,; Peng, Ying-chen,; Saint-Raymond, Léa,; Savoy, Bénédicte,; Thebele, Winani,; Vaudry, Élodie,; Étienne, Noémie,
• HerausgeberIn: Guichard, Charlotte,; Howald, Christine,; Savoy, Bénédicte,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 316 p.)

As more parts of the world outside Europe became accessible =– and in the wake of social and technological developments in the 18th century – a growing number of exotic artefacts entered European markets. The markets for such objects thrived, while a collecting culture and museums emerged. This book...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Acquiring Cultures and Trading Value in a Global World
• Depatriated Objects
• Embedded Markets
• Transaction and Translation
• Colonial Iconoclash
• Shopping China in Europe
• Marketing Objects
• Trading Places
• A New ‘Eldorado’
• Selling Authenticity
• Australian Ethnographica in European Collections
• Obscure Objects of Desire
• Mathias Komor and the Market for African Art in New York
• Global Players
• Christophe-Augustin Lamare-Picquot and the Fate of his Collection
• Emile Guimet’s Network for Research and Collecting Asian Objects (ca. 1877–1918)
• Innovative Trading Strategies for Japanese Art
• Dealing with War
• The Power of Provenance
• Notes for a Long-Term Approach to the Price History of Brass and Ivory Objects Taken from the Kingdom of Benin in 1897
• Bibliography
• Biographies
• Picture Credits
• Index