Siting China in Germany : eighteenth-century chinoiserie and its modern legacy
Title:
Siting China in Germany : eighteenth-century chinoiserie and its modern legacy
Siting China in Germany, 18th century chinoiserie and its modern legacy
Author:
Hertel, Christiane, 1958- author.
ISBN:
9780271082370
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Physical Description:
xiv, 258 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
Superfluous imitation : porcelain palaces in Dresden and Rastatt -- Shifting frames : Hesse-Kassel's Wilhelmsthal and Wilhelmshöhe palace gardens -- Afterlife : romantic translation in chinois Dresden (and vice versa) -- Ancestry : critical gathering in Thomas Mann's Lotte in Weimar.
Abstract:
"Introduces and interprets the complex history of German chinoiserie in the long eighteenth century, focusing on its emergence in literature and the arts"--Provided by publisher.
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Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (213-242) and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 10900168 N7429 H47 ysh