Beyond Chinoiserie:
Artistic Exchanges between China and the West during the late Qing Dynasty
(c1795-1911)
Proposals are called for papers to be presented at the two-day workshop to be held on the campus of Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ (USA) on October 30-31, 2015. The workshop is intended to bring together an international group of scholars working on artistic relations between China and the West (Europe and the US) from c. 1795-1911. Participants are expected to present half-hour long working papers and participate in panel debates and discussion sessions.
Papers may be focused on objects and sources or may address methodological issues. Among the questions to be explored are:
- How do we model the transition of eighteenth-century Chinoiserie to the nineteenth-century engagement with Chinese art, and relatedly, of Chinese court attitudes towards Western art during the early Qing dynasty to merchants’ attitudes during the late Qing dynasty?
- What, if any, is the relation between Chinoiserie and Japonisme
- What did nineteenth-century collectors of Chinese artifacts collect and what is the significance of the abundance of Chinese artifacts in Western painting of the second half of the nineteenth century (e.g. Stevens, Whistler, Tissot)?
- What Western art objects were available in China and what impact did they have?
- Using China and the West as an example, what happens to cultural and artistic exchanges in a politically hostile atmosphere.
Funds permitting, we anticipate publication of the papers in either paper of electronic format.
Those interested in presenting a paper at the symposium should send a one-page (double-spaced) proposal accompanied by a one-page resume (in one document) as an e-mail attachment to: Jennifer Milam ([email protected]).
Important Dates:
Proposal deadline: May 15, 2015.
Selected participants will be notified by June 30.
Final papers are due September 1, 2015.
Information about travel and subsidies are available here.
For more information, please e-mail Petra Chu or Jennifer Milam