China and the Church

Chinoiserie in Global Context
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-520-28465-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 212 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

Reihe: Franklin D. Murphy Lectures

This groundbreaking 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johns, Christopher M. S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Dekorative Kunst
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Gesellschaft, Kirche und Politik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. China and the Church: From Matteo Ricci to the Chinese Rites
Controversy
2. Chinoiserie and Chinese Art: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries
3. Chinoiserie and the Chinese Body
Conclusion: Chinoiserie and the Enlightenment

Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.