Nordic Private Collections of Chinese Objects

Minna Törmä is a lecturer in the history of art at the University of Glasgow and adjunct professor of art history at the University of Helsinki.

• 1. Collections and Collecting; 2. Kustaa Hiekka’s World Tour Souvenirs on Display; 3. Sophus Black and Living in Chinese Style; 4. Scholarly Souvenirs: Osvald Siren’s Chinese Things; 5. The Didrichsens: A Modernist Home for Chinese Objects; 6. Conclusion

"The book offers a new perspective on Nordic collections in a transnational context of the collecting of Chinese art and material culture in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As such, it speaks to scholars of Nordic or Chinese collecting histories as well as, more broadly, any scholars of collecting, museums and design interested in private collections and the interiors in which they are kept."--The Society for the History of Collecting"A valuable resource for those interested in Asian art and the history of collecting, [the book] outlines the changing status of Chinese objects, their transformation from exotic curios or souvenirs of ethnographic interest to items worthy of scholarly analysis that became appreciated and valued as art along with other aesthetic works from non-Europeans locations."--Orientations