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| The Artful Fabric of Collecting |
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| Jordan Schnitzner Museum of Art, University of Oregon
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Chinese textiles from the collection of Gertrude Bass Warner (1863-1951), who… was particularly drawn to silk textiles and the people who produced them, primarily the women in private households and commercial workshops. Techniques and patterns of weaving silk for Chinese robes are demonstrated on the site. It was only in the 17th century when the production of court orders began to overwhelm the imperial workshops that commercial workshops took over some of the production. In these commercial workshops, most of them located in the Jiangnan area, the center of China’s silk production, male weavers relegated women to the groundworks of silk production: the rearing of the silkworms and reeling the silk of the cocoons. Embroidery remained the domain of women. They were the master embroiderers who developed the art to its height in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Their legacy can be admired in the textiles from the Warner collection.
Go to Museum Resource: https://glam.uoregon.edu/s/fabric-of-collecting/page/welcome | |
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| Asia Rising: Japanese Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5) |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures
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"Imperial Japan’s 1904–05 war against Tsarist Russia changed the global balance of power. The first war to be widely illustrated in postcards, the Japanese view of the conflict is presented in images from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." See the ESSAY section for an in-depth, illustrated reading of the images from the historical record. See the VISUAL NARRATIVES section for a shorthand view of the unit's primary themes and images. A CURRICULUM section for teachers and students can be found under the "Asia Rising" menu at the top of the page.
Go to Museum Resource: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/asia_rising/index.html | |
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| Asian Influences on European Art |
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| Getty Museum
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Explore with your class Asian influences on European art in the 18th century in this lesson plan. Discover ways to engage your students in the investigation of chinoiserie, the cultural and artistic trend that produced objects and paintings reflecting Chinese subjects and motifs. In its broadest sense, chinoiserie was meant to evoke the spirit and decorative forms of faraway lands as diverse as China, Japan, India, and the Middle East.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/classroom_resources/curricula/asian_inf... | |
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| Black Ships & Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan (1853-1854) |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures
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"On July 8, 1853, residents of feudal Japan beheld an astonishing sight—foreign warships entering their harbor under a cloud of black smoke. Commodore Matthew Perry had arrived to force the long-secluded country to open its doors." The ESSAY section "examines graphics from the American and Japanese sides of the momentous encounter"; the VISUAL NARRATIVES section "retells topics or stories from the encounter." A CURRICULUM section for teachers and students can be found under the "Black Ships & Samurai" menu at the top of the page.
Go to Museum Resource: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/black_ships_and_samurai/index.html | |
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| Ch'ing (Qing), 1644-1912 |
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| Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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"The last Chinese dynasty began on a positive note -- of energetic collecting, cataloging, and exporting -- but ended disastrously." A brief, one-paragraph overview, along with a map, a video clip featuring an MIA curator, and 445 objects from the period.
Go to Museum Resource: http://archive.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/history/dynasty-ching.cfm | |
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