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OverviewMuseum collections of Asian art in Central Europe. 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. Collecting Asian Art locates Asian art across the twentieth-century in Central Europe via discourse and ideology, and discusses key collections and the way individual collectors built their networks. It thus explores transregional connections that developed through collecting activities and strategies in the prewar, interwar and postwar eras. Contributors also examine the personal connections between a group of Indologists from postwar Prague and modernist Indian artists from the early 1950s to the 1980s and also discuss the systematic archiving of East Asian art collections in Slovenia. A concluding conversation looks at colonisation and decolonisation from a broader perspective by approaching it through recent art historical discussions on the global dimensions of modernism. By defining the region through its external relationships and its entanglements with regions across Asia rather than as a self-contained unit, the contributions in this volume outline how these transregional connections and networks evolved and changed over time, thus highlighting their singularity in comparison to developments in Western Europe. Based on recent research, Collecting Asian Art reveals neglected sources while reinterpreting well-known ones. Contributors: Zdenka Klimtová (National Gallery in Prague); Agnieszka Kluczewska-Wójcik (Polish Institute of World Art Studies); Partha Mitter (University of Sussex); Michaela Pejčochová (National Gallery in Prague); Uta Rahman Steinert (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin); Iván Szántó (Eötvös Loránd University); Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik (University of Ljubljana); Johannes Wieninger (MAK – Museum of Applied Arts); Tomáš Winter (Czech Academy of Sciences). Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). Full Product DetailsAuthor: Markéta Hánová , Yuka Kadoi , Simone WillePublisher: Leuven University Press Imprint: Leuven University Press ISBN: 9789462703780ISBN 10: 9462703787 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 15 February 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration and Translation 7 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 Biographies of the Authors Index Gallery with Colour PlatesReviews*The content of the work is fresh and resonates with the contemporary focus on global art history and transcultural studies. The transcultural relationship around museum collectibles between Central Europe and Asia during the height of the Cold War and rising nationalism is relatively unexplored and this volume aims to fill in the lacuna. *Parul Dave-Mukherji, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University This is a diverse but carefully compiled collection of essays by leading specialists in the field. The book should make a valuable contribution to studies of colonial and post-colonial entanglements in Central Europe, which have been growing dynamically in recent years. Joanna Wasilewska, former director of the The Andrzej Wawrzyniak Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw The content of the work is fresh and resonates with the contemporary focus on global art history and transcultural studies. The transcultural relationship around museum collectibles between Central Europe and Asia during the height of the Cold War and rising nationalism is relatively unexplored and this volume aims to fill in the lacuna.Parul Dave-Mukherji, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University This is a diverse but carefully compiled collection of essays by leading specialists in the field. The book should make a valuable contribution to studies of colonial and post-colonial entanglements in Central Europe, which have been growing dynamically in recent years. Joanna Wasilewska, The Andrzej Wawrzyniak Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw Author InformationMarkéta Hánová is the head of the Collection of Asian Art, National Gallery Prague. Yuka Kadoi is Elise Richter Fellow (V-995) at the Department of Art History, University of Vienna. Simone Wille is Elise Richter Fellow (V880-G) at the Department of Art History, University of Innsbruck. 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