04645nam a22004455i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001400172072001700186072002300203072001500226100008900241245012900330250001800459264008200477300003400559336002600593337002600619338003600645347002400681505048400705520263001189650002803819650002403847650002903871650004003900710003403940773002603974776003604000776003604036776003604072856004604108912001404154912001404168999001704182978-981-97-9080-7DE-He21320251030114642.0cr nn 008mamaa241226s2024    si |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97898197908079978-981-97-9080-77 a10.1007/978-981-97-9080-72doi 4aD900-2027 7aHBJD2bicssc 7aHIS0100002bisacsh 7aNHD2thema1 aMerewether, Charles.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98965010aFrom Fascination to Folly: A Troubled History of Collecting since the 1600sh[electronic resource] /cby Charles Merewether.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aSingapore :bSpringer Nature Singapore :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXIX, 281 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aPart 1: Chapter 1: Collectors and Cabinets of Curiosities -- Chapter 2: English exploration, trade and collecting -- Chapter 3: Section.1: The Dutch reimagining the world -- Section.2: Dutch Golden Age -- Chapter 4: English Collecting and museums -- Part 2:Chapter 5: Conquest and Booty: Napoleon and the French -- Chapter 6: All Dreaming of Egypt: The French, Italian and British -- Chapter 7: Diamonds forever: India and England -- Chapter 8: The Return of China -- Conclusion.  aThis book explores the interplay of Western European exploration and trade, with collecting, cabinets of curiosities and museums, and with the role of booty and plunder in the building of empires from ca.1600 until the end of the 19th century. The book focuses principally on the Dutch, English, Spanish, French and Italian at different times of their colonial power over the course of these 300 years. The achievements of exploration and trade provide the basis for these countries and both the state and individuals to build collections and museums. This involved governments to legitimize the pursuit of booty and subsequently looting whether by themselves, members of the ruling class or privateers. Throughout much of this period, there those who stood up and challenged such practices, passing laws to criminalize, curtail or contain these activities. By the late 18th century, these parallel but disparate activities converged. It was era of Napoleon and his imperial ambitions that drew these disparate activities together, with his support of intellectual inquiry alongside military plunder and collecting. This served as a symbol of imperial power of the French empire that, alongside England and Italy, exploited the wealth and riches of Egypt, India, and China. Charles Merewether, born in Edinburgh, received his BA (literature) and PhD in art history at the University of Sydney. He taught European modernism at the Universities of Sydney (1981-84), Universidad Iberoeramericana, Mexico City (1986-88), and Universidad Autonoma in Barcelona. He received a research fellowship from Yale University (1991), was Inaugural Curator for the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico, (1991-1994), Curator at the Research Institute, Getty Center, Los Angeles (1994-2003) and taught at the University of Southern California. He was Artistic Director of the Sydney Biennale (2004-2006), Deputy Director of the Cultural District, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi (2007), Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore, (2010-2013), Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2014) and Baptist University, Hong Kong (2015). He was Curator of Contemporary Art, National Art Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia (2016-2019). His books include: In the Sphere of the Soviets (2021), State of Play: Art in Georgia 1985-2000 (2017), After Memory: The Art of Milenko Prvacki (2013) and Under Construction: Ai Weiwei (2008), He was co-editor of After the Event (2010), editor of both Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan 1950-1970, (2007) and The Archive (2006). 0aEuropexHistory.970908 0aImperialism.94566314aEuropean History.95776724aImperialism and Colonialism.9712282 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978981979079108iPrinted edition:z978981979081408iPrinted edition:z978981979082140uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9080-7  aZDB-2-HTY  aZDB-2-SXH  c66080d66080