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On completion of the course, students will be able to:

 

  1. Describe examples of famous collections of Chinese art in Greater China and beyond;

  2. Identify key objects of Chinese art in major museums;

  3. Recognise influential figures, such as collectors, curators and dealers, who contributed to amass important collections of Chinese art;

  4. Analyse the aesthetic and cultural values of collectables and collections;

  5. Explain the social, cultural, economic and political functions of collecting; and

  6. Integrate issues of collecting and art reception in their analyses of a variety of objects, images and publications.

Collecting Chinese Art

 

 

This course explores the collecting history of Chinese art from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It investigates the formation of important collections of ancient and modern Chinese art in palaces, private houses and public museums, including bronze, painting, calligraphy, porcelain and glass. While considering cultural rules of taxonomy and the aesthetics of collectables, students will learn to analyze the roles, strategies and tastes of pioneering collectors in Asia and the West. The interdependent relationship and exchanges between collectors, connoisseurs, dealers, curators and artists will be examined in relation to the social, economic, political, ideological and aesthetic dimensions of collecting practices. The discourse of cultural identity, the framing of Chinese race, as well as ethical issues of collecting will also be discussed. 

 

In the fall semester of 2014-2015, this course has included a Service-Learning and Research Scheme which emphasises experiential learning and real-world application of art-historical knowledge. Students have assisted our partnered agency, Globe Creative Ltd., in data collection and other curatorial work. The research findings and filmed interviews of the service-learning project are selected and edited for final inclusion in the Made in Hong Kong: Our City, Our Stories exhibition being held at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum from 6 March to 4 September 2015.

 

 

Under the instruction and supervision of Dr Sarah Ng, twenty-five students who were divided into seven groups managed the following tasks as part of their course assessment between 3 September and 1 December 2014:

 

  1. Conducted biographical research on each of the seven invited collectors in Hong Kong and prepared questions for each interview;

  2. Developed an outline for the approximate 5-minute video that has accompanied the Cherished Possession Gallery of the exhibition;

  3. Attended an interview with each collector and took part in the interviewing process;

  4. Wrote up summaries for each interview and transposed as caption text for the labels that has accompanied each collector’s display; and

  5. Prepared project reports and group presentations.

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