Table of Contents

Introduction: Reassessing chinoiserie
1. Making china: circulation, imitation and innovation
2. Buying china: commerce, taste and materialism
3. Commerce in the bedroom: sex, gender and social status
4. Commerce in the garden: nature, art and authority
Conclusion: Style and the global marketplace
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Stacey Sloboda is Associate Professor of Art History at Southern Illinois University

Reviews

'Sloboda's articulation of chinoiserie as "critical ornament," a versatile visual and material language used to express and reveal various commercial attitudes in Britain, from trading to manufacturing to buying and consuming, needs to be commended. It is an important contribution to a wider understanding of the complex nature and multi-layered meaning of chinoiserie.'
Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding, Senior lecturer in British history, Université Lille 3, The Art bulletin, CAA March 2016
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