| Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America Contributor(s): Giuffrida, Noelle (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520297423 ISBN-13: 9780520297425 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $64.35 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Asian - Chinese - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General - Art | Museum Studies |
| Dewey: 709.510 |
| LCCN: 2017048377 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 7.3" W x 10.2" (1.90 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Separating Sheep from Goats investigates the history of collecting and exhibiting Chinese art through the lens of the career of renowned American curator and museum director Sherman E. Lee (1918-2008). Drawing upon artworks and archival materials, Noelle Giuffrida excavates an international society of collectors, dealers, curators, and scholars who constituted the art world in which Lee operated. From his early training in Michigan and his work in Occupied Japan as a monuments man to his acquisitions, exhibitions, and publications for museums in Detroit, Seattle, and Cleveland, this study traces how Lee shaped public and scholarly understandings of Chinese art. By examining transnational efforts to collect and present Chinese art and scrutinizing scholarly and museological discourses of the postwar era, this book contributes to the historiography of both Chinese art and American museums. |