{"product_id":"siting-china-in-germany-christiane-hertel-9780271082370","title":"Siting China in Germany: Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie and Its Modern Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eChinoiserie--the use of motifs, materials, and techniques considered \"Chinese\" in ceramics, furniture, interior design, and landscape architecture--has often been associated with courtly decadence and shallow escapism. In \u003ci\u003eSiting China in Germany\u003c\/i\u003e, Christiane Hertel challenges conventional assumptions about this art form by developing a fresh, complex perspective on collections, gardens, and literature in the long eighteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the extraordinary porcelain palaces at Dresden and Rastatt and the gardens of Wilhelmsthal and Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel to the literary and artistic translation practices in Dresden and Thomas Mann's historical novel \u003ci\u003eLotte in Weimar\u003c\/i\u003e, Hertel interprets the extensive history of chinoiserie within but also beyond court culture. In particular, her study focuses on how manifestations of chinoiserie in Germany oscillated between the imagination, judgment, and critique of cultural and historical difference as well as identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHertel's erudite analysis of the cultural significance of German chinoiserie will interest art historians and scholars of Orientalism, German Sinophilia, and German Sinophobia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christiane Hertel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271082372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271082370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.30h x 9.30w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2020","brand":"Christiane Hertel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48448789020927,"sku":"9780271082370","price":53.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0fba3e3d-bb87-4999-8e75-f1c683020f13.jpg?v=1777260556","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/siting-china-in-germany-christiane-hertel-9780271082370","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}