{"product_id":"collecting-objectsexcluding-people-lenore-metrick-chen-9781438443256","title":"Collecting Objects\/Excluding People: Chinese Subjects and American Visual Culture, 1830-1900","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCombining aesthetic and political history, explores the influence of Chinese people and objects on American visual culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \"Chineseness\" 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lenore Metrick-Chen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438443250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438443256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Lenore Metrick-Chen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46838299623679,"sku":"9781438443256","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a196a44d-cbfb-4a67-be1a-90c1595b87d4.jpg?v=1746589399","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/collecting-objectsexcluding-people-lenore-metrick-chen-9781438443256","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}