PUB: Collecting Asian Art : Cultural Politics and Transregional Networks in Twentieth-Century Central Europe (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024)

Collecting Asian Art : Cultural Politics and Transregional Networks in Twentieth-Century Central Europe

Edited by Markéta Hánová, Yuka Kadoi, and Simone Wille

Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024

272 pp., 31 pls.,

ISBN: 978 94 6270 378 0

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Rather than centering on the well-known collections in Western European and North

American museums, Collecting Asian Art turns to museum collections of Asian art in Central

Europe which emerged from the late 19th century onwards. Highlighting the dimensions of

Central European connectedness, this volume explores how these collections evolved and

changed under changing cultural and political conditions from the pre-World War I to the

post-World War II periods. With a primary focus on collections of East Asian, South Asian,

and West Asian art in Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Warsaw, Kraków, Budapest, and Ljubljana, it

outlines the transregional connections and networks that gradually developed.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Collecting Asian Art: Central Europe’s Transregional Connectivity

Simone Wille

THE LOCATION OF ASIAN ART IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CENTRAL EUROPE

The Ideals of the East : Asian Art and the Crisis of Visual Expression across the Globe, ca.

1900

Yuka Kadoi

Picasso’s Meeting with Buddha​

Tomáš Winter

COLLECTIONS AND COLLECTORS, NETWORKS AND DISPLAY

Twentieth-Century Cultural Politics and Networks : The Genesis of the Asian Art Collection

at the National Gallery in Prague

Markéta Hánová

‘I Have Shown You Japan …’ Feliks Jasieński and Japanese Art Collections in Poland

Agnieszka Kluczewska-Wójcik

Networks of Enthusiasm for Japan

Johannes Wieninger

SPOTLIGHT ON (COMMUNIST) ASIA

When East and West met in the Heart of Europe : Vojtěch Chytil and His contribution to

Collecting Asian Art in Central Europe

Michaela Pejčochová

Big Presents Maintain the Friendship : The gift of the People’s Republic of China to the

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin), GDR, in 1959

Uta Rahman-Steinert

Saved from the Furnace, thrown into the Cold War: Islamic Art in Hungary in the 1950s

Iván Szántó

SOUTH ASIA IN POST-WAR PRAGUE

Lubor Hájek and Indian Modernist Art

Zdenka Klimtová

M. F. Husain’s Work in the Collection of the National Gallery in Prague: Connecting East and

West

Simone Wille

THE ARCHIVE: A REPOSITORY

Collecting East Asian Objects in Slovenia : A Methodological Approach to Creating the VAZ

Database

Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik

COLLECTING ASIAN ART: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

Of Centres, Peripheries, Values, and Judgements

Simone Wille in Conversation with Partha Mitter on ‘Decentering Modernism’ and Modernist

Routes beyond Western Europe