Combining aesthetic and political history; explores the influence of Chinese people and objects on American visual culture.In Collecting Objects / Excluding People; Lenore Metrick-Chen demonstrates an unknown impact of Chinese immigration upon nineteenth-century American art and visual culture. The American ideas of ldquo;Chinesenessrdquo; ranged from a negative portrayal to an admiring one and these varied images had an effect on museum art collections and advertising images. They brought new ideas into American art theory; anticipating twentieth-century Modernism. Metrick-Chen shows that efforts to construct a cultural democracy led to the creation of unforeseen new categories for visual objects and unanticipated social changes. Collecting Objects / Excluding People reveals the power of images upon culture; the influence of media representation upon the lives of Chinese immigrants; and the impact of political ideology upon the definition of art itself.Lenore Metrick-Chen is Assistant Professor of Art History at Drake University.
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