A Confuncian education for Europeans

• Paola Demattè ^[1]
  1. [1] Rhode Island School of Design

     Rhode Island School of Design

     City of Providence, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 98, Nº 1, 2016, págs. 43-71
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The analysis of two collections of hybrid prints of Chinese subjects published in Paris on the eve of the French Revolution by the French engraver Isidore-Stanislas Helman reveals that they were the result of a series of cross-cultural encounters that had involved many parties from China to France. More than a case of cultural transmission, the creation of Helman's "Abrégé historique" and "Faits mémorables" from hybrid versions of the Chinese "Shengji tu" and "Dijian tushuo" is symbolic of a larger process of transculturation that brought Chinese culture to Europe and led to the unknowing transformation of the host culture.