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  title info:
    title: Monstrous beauty
    sub title: a feminist revision of chinoiserie
  title info:
    title: Feminist revision of chinoiserie
  name:
    name part: Moon, Iris
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: curator.
  name:
    name part: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
    role:
      role term: hosting institution,
    role:
      role term: issuing body.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: exhibition catalogs.
  genre: Exhibition catalogs.
  genre: Catalogues d'exposition.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 255 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
  abstract: "Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie radically reimagines the story of European porcelain through a feminist lens. When porcelain arrived in early modern Europe from China, it led to the rise of chinoiserie, a decorative style that encompassed Europe's fantasies of the East and fixations on the exotic, along with new ideas about women, sexuality, and race. This exhibition explores how this fragile material shaped both European women's identities and racial and cultural stereotypes around Asian women. Shattering the illusion of chinoiserie as a neutral, harmless fantasy, Monstrous Beauty adopts a critical glance at the historical style and its afterlives, recasting negative terms through a lens of female empowerment. Bringing together nearly 200 historical and contemporary works spanning from 16th-century Europe to contemporary installations by Asian and Asian American women artists, Monstrous Beauty illuminates chinoiserie through a conceptual framework that brings the past into active dialog with the present. In demand during the 1700s as the embodiment of Europe's fantasy of the East, porcelain accumulated strong associations with female taste over its complex history. Fragile, delicate, and sharp when broken, it became a resonant metaphor for women, who became the protagonists of new narratives around cultural exchange, consumption, and desire." -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website
  table of contents: Directors' foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Lenders to the exhibition and contributors -- Note to the reader -- Introduction : the woman in the mirror -- Shipwrecks and sirens : early arrivals of porcelain in Europe -- Plates -- Surrogate bodies : Mary II, succession, and porcelain obsessions -- Plates -- Artificial mothers : figurines and fantasies of the female subject -- Plates -- Afterlives of chinoiserie -- Plates -- Object encounters -- Notes to the essays -- Bibliography -- Checklist -- Index -- Photography credits.
  note: Iris Moon.
  note: "This catalogue is published in conjunction with Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 25 through August 17, 2025"--Colophon.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-235) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    topic: Chinoiserie (Art)
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Decorative arts
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Chinese influences
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Feminism in art
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Women in art
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Chinoiseries (Ornements)
    genre: Expositions
  subject:
    topic: Féminisme dans l'art
    genre: Expositions
  subject:
    topic: Femmes dans l'art
    genre: Expositions
  classification: NK1442 .M66 2025
  classification: 738.208209
  identifier: 9781588397928
  identifier: 1588397920
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: MZA
    record creation date: 250207
    record change date: 20250802185300.0
    record identifier: in00005653927
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng