The Picturesque in Peking

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 5
3. Introduction 7
4. Part 1: Interlaced Patterns
5. Wandering Designs 17
6. The Art of Printed Textiles 41
7. Chintzes as Printed Matter and Their Entanglement within the Transatlantic Slave Trade around 1800 57
8. Part 2: Embedded Relationships
9. Interpretations of Central African Taste in European Trade Cloth of the 1890s 79
10. The Picturesque in Peking 99
11. Cultural Intersections and Identity in Algeria on the Eve of the French Invasion 125
12. Part 3: Crafted Identities
13. “What Is Colonial Art? And How Can It Be Modern?” 149
14. Crafting Colonial Power 171
15. A World of Knowledge 195
16. Frida Kahlo’s Circulating Crafts 211
17. Authors 233
18. Picture Credits 236