Separating sheep from goats : Sherman E. Lee and Chinese art collecting in postwar America /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | 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 comprised 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. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 260 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520297425 0520297423 |