17th century chinese art
18th century chinese art
A01=Christopher M. S. Johns
art history
Author_Christopher M. S. Johns
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catholic art in china
catholic conversion in asia
catholic missions in china
chinese art
chinese art in ming dynasty
chinese art in qing dynasty
chinese visual culture
chinoiserie
christianity in china
church history
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european visualizations of china
feminized grotesques
late ming dynasty
oriental rights in the catholic church
qing dynasty
western attitudes towards chinese art
whimsical representations of east asian male body
Product details
- ISBN 9780520284654
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 16 Feb 2016
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This ground breaking study examines decorative Chinese works of art and visual culture, known as chinoiserie, in the context of church and state politics, with a particular focus on the Catholic missions' impact on Western attitudes toward China and the Chinese. Art-historical examinations of chinoiserie have largely ignored the role of the Church and its conversion efforts in Asia. Johns, however, demonstrates that the emperor's 1722 prohibition against Catholic evangelization, which occurred after almost a century and a half of tolerance, prompted a remarkable change in European visualizations of China in Roman Catholic countries. China and the Church considers the progress of Christianity in China during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, examines authentic works of Chinese art available to the European artists who produced chinoiserie, and explains how the East Asian male body in Western art changed from "normative" depictions to whimsical, feminized grotesques after the collapse of the missionary efforts during the 1720s.
Christopher M. S. Johns is Norman and Roselea Goldberg Professor of History of Art at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Papal Art and Cultural Politics: Rome in the Age of Clement XI, Antonio Canova and the Politics of Patronage in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, and The Visual Culture of Catholic Enlightenment.
