LEADER 04761nam 22004935 450 001 9910919822403321 005 20241226115305.0 010 $a9789819790807$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9789819790791 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-97-9080-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31861918 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31861918 035 $a(CKB)37082595700041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-97-9080-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937082595700041 100 $a20241226d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFrom Fascination to Folly: A Troubled History of Collecting since the 1600s /$fby Charles Merewether 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (294 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Merewether, Charles From Fascination to Folly: a Troubled History of Collecting since The 1600s Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan,c2025 9789819790791 327 $aPart 1: Chapter 1: Collectors and Cabinets of Curiosities -- Chapter 2: English exploration, trade and collecting -- Chapter 3: Section.1: The Dutch reimagining the world -- Section.2: Dutch Golden Age -- Chapter 4: English Collecting and museums -- Part 2:Chapter 5: Conquest and Booty: Napoleon and the French -- Chapter 6: All Dreaming of Egypt: The French, Italian and British -- Chapter 7: Diamonds forever: India and England -- Chapter 8: The Return of China -- Conclusion. 330 $aThis book explores the interplay of Western European exploration and trade, with collecting, cabinets of curiosities and museums, and with the role of booty and plunder in the building of empires from ca.1600 until the end of the 19th century. The book focuses principally on the Dutch, English, Spanish, French and Italian at different times of their colonial power over the course of these 300 years. The achievements of exploration and trade provide the basis for these countries and both the state and individuals to build collections and museums. This involved governments to legitimize the pursuit of booty and subsequently looting whether by themselves, members of the ruling class or privateers. Throughout much of this period, there those who stood up and challenged such practices, passing laws to criminalize, curtail or contain these activities. By the late 18th century, these parallel but disparate activities converged. It was era of Napoleon and his imperial ambitions that drew these disparate activities together, with his support of intellectual inquiry alongside military plunder and collecting. This served as a symbol of imperial power of the French empire that, alongside England and Italy, exploited the wealth and riches of Egypt, India, and China. Charles Merewether, born in Edinburgh, received his BA (literature) and PhD in art history at the University of Sydney. He taught European modernism at the Universities of Sydney (1981-84), Universidad Iberoeramericana, Mexico City (1986-88), and Universidad Autonoma in Barcelona. He received a research fellowship from Yale University (1991), was Inaugural Curator for the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico, (1991-1994), Curator at the Research Institute, Getty Center, Los Angeles (1994-2003) and taught at the University of Southern California. He was Artistic Director of the Sydney Biennale (2004-2006), Deputy Director of the Cultural District, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi (2007), Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore, (2010-2013), Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2014) and Baptist University, Hong Kong (2015). He was Curator of Contemporary Art, National Art Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia (2016-2019). His books include: In the Sphere of the Soviets (2021), State of Play: Art in Georgia 1985-2000 (2017), After Memory: The Art of Milenko Prvacki (2013) and Under Construction: Ai Weiwei (2008), He was co-editor of After the Event (2010), editor of both Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan 1950-1970, (2007) and The Archive (2006). 606 $aEurope$xHistory 606 $aImperialism 606 $aEuropean History 606 $aImperialism and Colonialism 615 0$aEurope$xHistory. 615 0$aImperialism. 615 14$aEuropean History. 615 24$aImperialism and Colonialism. 676 $a069.4 700 $aMerewether$b Charles$01229710 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910919822403321 996 $aFrom Fascination to Folly: A Troubled History of Collecting since the 1600s$94327328 997 $aUNINA