{"id":2660,"date":"2020-03-12T07:21:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T07:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearts.hku.hk\/dev-finearts3\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=2660"},"modified":"2020-06-23T03:47:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T03:47:27","slug":"the-19th-century-display-of-chinese-art-in-the-musee-guimet","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/event\/the-19th-century-display-of-chinese-art-in-the-musee-guimet\/","title":{"rendered":"The 19th-Century Display of Chinese Art in the Mus\u00e9e Guimet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The 19th-Century Display of Chinese Art in the Mus\u00e9e Guimet<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Date: 9 October 2015 (Wednesday)<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Time: 5:00pm<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Venue: Room 4.04, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the late 19th century when China was increasingly exposed to European travelers due to the opening of ports and the development of transportation, a number of bourgeois men formed collections of Chinese art in France. One of them was Emile Guimet (1836-1918) who formed his collection in the 1870s and founded the well-known Mus\u00e9e Guimet (Guimet Museum) in Paris in 1889.<\/p>\n<p>This paper explores how Guimet displayed Chinese artifacts and artworks in his museum and how he represented Chinese culture as a whole through different display elements. Analyzing the location, architecture, organization, labeling, and interior design of the institution, I will argue he consciously abandoned the traditional view that China was an exotic and mystic country. Instead, with a scientific and academic approach, Guimet portrayed China as a nation with rich culture and a long history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker: Janet Wong (MPhil Candidate, Department of Fine Arts, HKU)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 19th-Century Display of Chinese Art in the Mus\u00e9e Guimet Date: 9 October 2015 (Wednesday) Time: 5:00pm Venue: Room 4.04, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus In the late 19th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2662,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[170],"tribe_events_cat":[17],"class_list":["post-2660","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-rpgseminar","tribe_events_cat-seminars","cat_seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2660\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}