Towards an International History of the Nineteenth-Century Art Trade

Abstract

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Impressions of Guangzhou city in Qing dynasty export paintings in the context of trade economy: a color analysis of paintings based on k-means clustering algorithm

“…Wang and Liu [61,65] The author argues that the pattern of color usage in the costumes of the characters in the Guangzhou export paintings reflects the hierarchical concepts in traditional Chinese ritual education, while the shift in their color usage highlights the emphasis on the idea of humanistic texts Sociability 2016 Park [66] As a special commodity exported to Japan in the early days, Chinese export paintings were considered a tool that could enhance social capital 2020 Hulme [67] Through an examination of cheap Chinese export paintings, the author shows how these works are manufactured and remanufactured at different points in the production chain (waste dealers, wholesalers, shopkeepers and shoppers). He argues that the rise of these commodity arts reflects both the globalized relationship between production and consumption in material culture and socio-cultural change 2019 Baetens and Lyna [68] Export painting was seen as a tool for constructing and increasing national identity, but early commodity art did not play these roles with the formation of directly globalized trade networks and the expansion of transnational markets 2014 Peite [28] In the academic context of the study "In Guangzhou's Thirteen Hongs: Foreign Merchants in Chinese Export Paintings (1700-1900), " the author delineates the multifaceted interactions between foreign merchants in Guangzhou and the local Chinese context during the specified period. The author emphasizes the pivotal role of these export paintings as a window into the socio-economic and cultural exchanges between China and the West 2014 Kleutghen [69] The author argues that the eighteenth-century Chinese taste for things European was satisfied not so much by the importation of foreign goods as by the domestic production of Western art.…”