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Waln, Robert

(Philadelphia, Penn. 1794-1825 Providence, R.I.) : Kaufmann, Reisender

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Economics and Trade / History : China - United States of America / Index of Names : Occident

Chronology Entries (2)

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1 1819-1820 Robert Waln ist als Geschäftsmann in Guangzhou (Guangdong). Er handelt mit Baumwolle, amerikanischem Ginseng, Taback und Eisen und erhält in China Textilien, Tee und Keramik.
2 1823 Waln, Robert. Painters of Canton.
"Chinese painters offend against every rule of perspective, which, with the effects produced by the proper disposition of light and shade, they affect to consider unnatural. Always taking a horizontal view of their subject, they place themselves alternately in front of the objects, whatever may be their position or extent ; thus, in their paintings, houses are placed one on top of another, and the method which they have imagined to express objects at a distance, is to represent clouds intersecting tress, buildings and men. They absurdly contend that it is proper to represent the objects in the back, of the same size as those in the fore ground, because they are so in nature."
  • Document: The reception of Chinese art across cultures. Ed. by Michelle Ying-ling Huang. (Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014).
    [Enthält] :
    Part I: Blending Chinese and Foreign Cultures
    Chapter One ................................................................................................. 2
    Shades of Mokkei: Muqi-style Ink Painting in Medieval Kamakura
    Aaron M. Rio
    Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 23
    Mistakes or Marketing? Western Responses to the Hybrid Style of Chinese Export Painting
    Maria Kar-wing Mok
    Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 44
    "Painted Paper of Pekin": The Taste for Eighteenth-Century Chinese Papers in Britain, c. 1918 - c. 1945
    Clare Taylor
    Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 65
    "Chinese" Paintings by Zdenek Sklenar
    Lucie Olivova
    Part II: Envisioning Chinese Landscape Art
    Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 88
    Binyon and Nash: British Modernists’ Conception of Chinese Landscape Painting
    Michelle Ying-ling Huang
    Chapter Six .............................................................................................. 115
    In Search of Paradise Lost: Osvald Sirén’s Scholarship on Garden Art
    Minna Törmä
    Chapter Seven .......................................................................................... 130
    The Return of the Silent Traveller
    Mark Haywood
    Part III: Conceptualising Chinese Art through Display
    Chapter Eight ........................................................................................... 154
    Aesthetics and Exclusion: Chinese Objects in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture
    Lenore Metrick-Chen
    Chapter Nine ........................................................................................... 179
    Exhibitions of Chinese Painting in Europe in the Interwar Period: The Role of Liu Haisu as Artistic Ambassador
    Michaela Pejcochova
    Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 200
    The Right Stuff: : Chinese Art Treasures’ Landing in Early 1960s America
    Noelle Giuffrida
    Part IV: Positioning Contemporary
    Chinese Artists in the Globe
    Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 228
    Under the Spectre of Orientalism and Nation: Translocal Crossingsand Discrepant Modernities
    Diana Yeh
    Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 255
    The Reception of Xing Danwen’s Lens-based Art Across Cultures
    Silvia Fok
    Chapter Thirteen ...................................................................................... 278
    Selling Contemporary Chinese Art in the West: A Case Studyof How Yue Minjun’s Art was Marketed in Auctions
    Elizabeth Kim S. 159. (Huang1, Publication)

Bibliography (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1823 Waln, Robert. China : comprehending a view of the origin, antiquity, history, religion, morals, government, laws, population, literature, drama, festivals, games, women, beggars, manners, customs, &c. of that empire ; with remarks on the European embassies to China and the policy of sending a mission from the United States to the court of Peking ; to which is added a commercial appendix, containing a synopsis of the trade of Portugal, Holland, England, France, Denmark, Ostend, Sweden, Prussia, Trieste, and Spain, in China and India ; and a full description of the American trade to Canton, its riese, progress, and present state : with mercantile information, useful to the Chinese trader and general merchant. (Philadelphia : The Author, 1823). [Beijing ; Guangzhou (Guangdong)]. Publication / Waln2

Secondary Literature (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1999 Goldstein, Jonathan. America's first sinologist : Philadelphia's Robert Waln, Jr. (1794-1825). In : Asian culture ; vol. 27, no 1 (1999). Publication / Waln3
  • Cited by: Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich (AOI, Organisation)
  • Person: Goldstein, Jonathan