Jeannette Shambaugh Elliott and David Shambaugh
The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures
Seattle:
University of Washington Press,
2004.
192 pp.; 45 b/w ills.
Cloth
(0295985224)
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The Odyssey of China’s Imperial Art Treasures is a master narrative of the political life of art objects in China, from early Shang-dynasty bronze vessels to the “remnant collections” of the last Qing emperor now belonging to the National Palace Museum in Taiwan and the Palace Museum in Beijing. While much of what Jeannette Shambaugh Elliott and David Shambaugh have to say about the relationship between art and authority is familiar, the study is the...