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Rather than centring on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museums, Collecting Asian Art turns to museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe which emerged from the late 19th century onwards. Highlighting the dimensions of Central European connectedness, this volume explores how these collections evolved and changed under changing cultural and political conditions from the pre-World War I to the post-World War II periods. With a primary focus on collections of East Asian, South Asian, and West Asian art in Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Warsaw, Kraków, Budapest, and Ljubljana, it outlines the transregional connections and networks that gradually developed. Collecting Asian Art locates Asian art across the twentieth-century in Central Europe via discourse and ideology, and discusses key collections and the way individual collectors built their networks. It thus explores transregional connections that developed through collecting activities and strategies in the prewar, interwar and postwar eras. Contributors also examine the personal connections between a group of Indologists from postwar Prague and modernist Indian artists from the early 1950s to the 1980s and also discuss the systematic archiving of East Asian art collections in Slovenia. A concluding conversation looks at colonisation and decolonisation from a broader perspective by approaching it through recent art historical discussions on the global dimensions of modernism. By defining the region through its external relationships and its entanglements with regions across Asia rather than as a self-contained unit, the contributions in this volume outline how these transregional connections and networks evolved and changed over time, thus highlighting their singularity in comparison to developments in Western Europe. Based on recent research, Collecting Asian Art reveals neglected sources while reinterpreting well-known ones.
Rather than centring on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museums, Collecting Asian Art turn to museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe which emerged from the late 19th century onwards. Highlighting the dimensions of Central European connectedness, this volume explores how these collections evolved and changed under changing cultural and political conditions from the pre-World War I to the post-World War II periods. With a primary focus on collections of East, South Asian, and West Asian art in Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Warsaw, Kraków, Budapest, and Ljubljana, it outlines the transregional connections and networks that gradually developed. Collecting Asian Art locates Asian art across the twentieth-century in Central Europe via discourse and ideology, and discusses key collections and the way individual collectors built their networks. It thus explores transregional connections that developed through collecting activities and strategies in the prewar, interwar and postwar eras. Contributors also examine the personal connections between a group of Indologists from postwar Prague and modernist Indian artists from the early 1950s to the 1980s and also discuss the systematic archiving of East Asian art collections in Slovenia. A concluding conversation looks at colonisation and decolonisation from a broader perspective by approaching it through recent art historical discussions on the global dimensions of modernism. By defining the region through its external relationships and its entanglements with regions across Asia rather than as a self-contained unit, the contributions in this volume outline how these transregional connections and networks evolved and changed over time, thus highlighting their singularity in comparison to developments in Western Europe. Based on recent research, Collecting Asian Art reveals neglected sources while reinterpreting well-known ones.
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Note on Transliteration and Translation 7 Collecting Asian Art: Central Europe’s Transregional Connectivity Simone Wille THE LOCATION OF ASIAN ART IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CENTRAL EUROPE The Ideals of the East : Asian Art and the Crisis of Visual Expression across the Globe, ca. 1900 Yuka Kadoi Picasso’s Meeting with Buddha Tomáš Winter COLLECTIONS AND COLLECTORS, NETWORKS AND DISPLAY Twentieth-Century Cultural Politics and Networks : The Genesis of the Asian Art Collection at the National Gallery in Prague Markéta Hánová ‘I Have Shown You Japan …’ Feliks Jasieński and Japanese Art Collections in Poland Agnieszka Kluczewska-Wójcik Networks of Enthusiasm for Japan Johannes Wieninger SPOTLIGHT ON (COMMUNIST) ASIA When East and West met in the Heart of Europe : Vojtěch Chytil and His Contribution to Collecting Asian Art in Central Europe Michaela Pejčochová Big Presents Maintain the Friendship : The Gift of the People’s Republic of China to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin), GDR, in 1959 Uta Rahman-Steinert Saved from the Furnace, thrown into the Cold War: Islamic Art in Hungary in the 1950s Iván Szántó SOUTH ASIA IN POST-WAR PRAGUE Lubor Hájek and Indian Modernist Art Zdenka Klimtová M. F. Husain’s Work in the Collection of the National Gallery in Prague : Connecting East and West Simone Wille THE ARCHIVE: A REPOSITORY Collecting East Asian Objects in Slovenia : A Methodological Approach to Creating the VAZ Database Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik COLLECTING ASIAN ART: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE Of Centres, Peripheries, Values, and Judgements Simone Wille in Conversation with Partha Mitter on ‘Decentering Modernism’ and Modernist Routes beyond Western Europe Biographies of the Authors Index Gallery with Colour Plates
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