“From Chinese to Goth : Walpole and the gothic repudiation of chinoiserie” (Publication, 1999)
Year
1999
Text
Porter, David. From Chinese to Goth : Walpole and the gothic repudiation of chinoiserie. In : Eighteenth-century life ; vol. 23, no 1 (1999). (Walp2)
Type
Publication
Mentioned People (1)
Walpole, Horace
(London 1717-1797 London) : Schriftsteller, Kunsthistoriker, Politiker, Gelehrter
Subjects
Literature : Occident : Great Britain
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References / Sources
Chronology Entries (12)
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| 1 | 1735 | Horace Walpole erhält im ersten Jahr seines Studium in Cambridge von Lord John Hervey eine Kopie von General description of China von Jean Baptiste Du Halde. |
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| 2 | 1745 |
Brief von Lord John Hervey an Horace Walpole. Er schreibt : "I am extremely glad to hear the History of China [Du Halde] has so strong an effect upon you. You describe in a very entertaining manner the change it has made in you." |
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| 3 | 1750 | Horace Walpole calls the goldfish pond at Strawberry Hill 'Po Yang' after a reference in Du Haldes Description to a lake in Jiangxi province celebrated for its many fish. |
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| 4 | 1750 |
Brief von Horace Walpole aus Strawberry Hill an Horace Mann. (2 Aug.) Er schreibt : "I wish you could see the villas and seats here ! The country wears a new face ; every body is improving their places, and as they don't fortify their plantations with entrenchments of walls ande high hedges, one has the benefit of them even in passing by. The dispersed buildings, I mean, temples, bridges, etc. are generally Gothic of Chinese and give a shimsical air of novelty that is very pleasing." |
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| 5 | 1750 |
Brief von Horace Walpole an Horace Mann. (25 Febr.) Er schreibt : "Columns and all their beautiful ornaments look ridiculous when corwded into a closet or a cheesecake house. The variety is little, and admits no charming irregularities. I am almost as fond of the Sharawaggi, or Chinese want of symmetry, in buildings, as in grounds or gardens. I am sure whenever you come to England, you will be pleased with the liberty of tase into which we are struck, and of which you can have no idea." |
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| 6 | 1752 |
Brief von Horace Walpole an Richard Bentley. (5 Aug.) Walpole describes a pyramid he had seen at Lord Westmorland's Mereworth estate, "which by a most unnatural copulation is at once a grotto and a greenhouse. Does it not put you in mind of the proposal for your drawing a garden-seat, Chinese on one side and Gothic on the other ?" |
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| 7 | 1755 |
Brief von Horace Walpole an Richard Bentley. (4 Aug.) Er schreibt : "When I every day see Greek and Roman and Italian and Chinese and Gothic architecture embroidered and inlaid upon one another, or called by each other's names, I couldn't help thinking that the grace and simplicity and truth of your taste, in whichever you undertake, is real taste." |
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| 8 | 1756 | Horace Walpole composes two unpublished letters for The world upon the story of a notorious book-burning Chinese emperor to mount a playfully satire assault on the excesses of the publishing industry. |
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| 9 | 1771 |
Walpole, Horace. The history of the modern taste in gardening. In : Walpole, Horace. Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists. Vol. 1-4. (Strawberry Hill : Printed for Thomas Farmer, 1762-1771). Vol. 4 (1771). In the first edition Walpole had caricatured Chinese gardens as marred by excessive artificiality and 'unsubstantial tawdriness' in an early attempt to discredit this putative model for English innovations. |
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| 10 | 1772 |
Brief von Horace Walpole an William Mason. (25 May). Walpole's response to the Dissertation by William Chambers within weeks of its publication : "I have read Chamber's book. It is more extravagant than the worst Chinese paper, and is written in wild revenge against Brown". The book "is laughed at and it is not likely to be adopted, as I expected, for nothing is to tempting to fools, as advice to deprave taste". |
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| 11 | 1775 |
Brief von Horace Walpole an William Mason. (6 Sept.) Walpole complains "that by the help of Sir William Chambers's lunettes have detected us for having stolen our gardens from the Chinese". |
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| 12 | 1782 |
Walpole, Horace. The history of the modern taste in gardening (1782 ed.). Er schreibt : "The French have of late years adopted our style in gardens, but chusing to be fundamentally obliged to more remote rivals, they deny us half the merit, or rather the originality of the invention, by ascribing the discovery to the Chinese, and by calling our taste in gardening 'Le gout anglo-chinois'. I think I have shewn that this is a blunder." |
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Cited by (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 2000- | Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich | Organisation / AOI |
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