Louise Tythacott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3623394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Tythacott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Tythacott |
| SIGNATURE | TYTHACOTT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5625-6468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Lives of Chinese Objects
This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo - China's most important pilgrimage island - to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers' and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverp…
Returning Southeast Asia's Past
Deity and Display
This paper analyses the values and uses of Tibetan sacred artefacts in their original contexts as well as the transformation of meanings once placed in museums. It discusses the perception of statues, paintings, ritual instruments and books from a Tibetan Buddhist perspective, examining the iconographic and iconometric functions of the images, and asserting that a primary purpose is as a 'support for practice' (tib. sku rten, 'body-support'). Sac…
Collecting and Displaying China’s “Summer Palace” in the West
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the Summer Palace, this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan—and many of these are now scattered around th…
Curating the Sacred
This article explores issues involved in representing Buddhism in museums, drawing on the author’s experience of curating the Buddhism display at the World Museum Liverpool. It is concerned with processes of de-contextualization and re-contextualization, focussing on whether sacred images become divested of their religious functions once they enter a museum or if, instead, the gallery can be considered an alternative arena for contemplation. The …
The power of taste
In 1921, a collection of around 800 Chinese ceramics was offered on loan to Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum by Stanley Berkeley Smith (1878–1955), a British banker based in Karachi, who had spent the previous twenty-one years acquiring the objects in India. A Chinese Porcelain Room was duly opened at the museum in 1923. Tastes in Chinese ceramics, however, were changing. From the 1920s, Cheltenham’s curator invited London specialists to inspect B…
Heritage management, tourism, and governance in China
The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in domestic tourism in China. An unprecedented peacetime movement of citizens, combined with an expanding middle class with disposable income, has f
Trophies of War
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War (1856-60), Britishand French troops looted and then burnt the imperial buildings in the Yuanmingyuan(known at the time by foreigners as the 'Summer Palace') in the north of Beijing.This widespread destruction of China's most important complex of palaces, andthe dispersal of the imperial art collection, is considered one of the most extremeacts of cultural destruction of the nineteenth ce…
The empty museum
"The empty museum: Western cultures and the artistic field in modern Japan." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 18(1), pp. 105–106
The Lives of Chinese Objects
This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China’s most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers’ and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverp…
Race on display
This paper examines a form of evolutionary display that emerged at Liverpool Museum between 1896 and 1929, one based on racial types. It traces the formation and early history of this institution, as well as the development of evolutionary theories in the mid‐late nineteenth century. The paper moves on to analyse the beliefs and exhibitionary practices of Liverpool Museum's director, Dr Henry Ogg Forbes (1851–1932), and the influence of A.H. Kean…
Surrealism and the Exotic
Surrealism and the Exotic is the story of the obsessive relationship between surrealist and non-western culture. Describing the travels across Africa, Oceania, Mexico and the Caribbean made by wealthy aesthetes, it combines an insight into the mentality of early twentieth century collectors with an overview of the artistic heritage at stake in these adventures. Featuring more than 70 photographs of artefacts, exhibitions and expeditions-in-progre…
The African Collection at Liverpool Museum
Pic sicasso's encounter with African sculpture at th Musee d'Ethnographie du Trocadero in 1907 is considered to be a turning point in the European perception of non-European art.African forms in the environment of a museum had a decisive impact on Picasso's work, and indeed on the course of modem art.To a large degree, it was the French and German avant-gard response to these exotic objects early in this century that preci tated the reconceptuali…
Curating the Sacred
This article explores issues involved in representing Buddhism in museums, drawing on the author’s experience of curating the Buddhism display at the World Museum Liverpool. It is concerned with processes of de-contextualization and re-contextualization, focussing on whether sacred images become divested of their religious functions once they enter a museum or if, instead, the gallery can be considered an alternative arena for contemplation. The …
Trophies of War
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War (1856-60), Britishand French troops looted and then burnt the imperial buildings in the Yuanmingyuan(known at the time by foreigners as the 'Summer Palace') in the north of Beijing.This widespread destruction of China's most important complex of palaces, andthe dispersal of the imperial art collection, is considered one of the most extremeacts of cultural destruction of the nineteenth ce…
The African Collection at Liverpool Museum
Pic sicasso's encounter with African sculpture at th Musee d'Ethnographie du Trocadero in 1907 is considered to be a turning point in the European perception of non-European art.African forms in the environment of a museum had a decisive impact on Picasso's work, and indeed on the course of modem art.To a large degree, it was the French and German avant-gard response to these exotic objects early in this century that preci tated the reconceptuali…
Deity and Display
This paper analyses the values and uses of Tibetan sacred artefacts in their original contexts as well as the transformation of meanings once placed in museums. It discusses the perception of statues, paintings, ritual instruments and books from a Tibetan Buddhist perspective, examining the iconographic and iconometric functions of the images, and asserting that a primary purpose is as a 'support for practice' (tib. sku rten, 'body-support'). Sac…
The African Collection at Liverpool Museum
Pic sicasso's encounter with African sculpture at th Musee d'Ethnographie du Trocadero in 1907 is considered to be a turning point in the European perception of non-European art.African forms in the environment of a museum had a decisive impact on Picasso's work, and indeed on the course of modem art.To a large degree, it was the French and German avant-gard response to these exotic objects early in this century that preci tated the reconceptuali…
Surrealism and the Exotic
Surrealism and the Exotic is the story of the obsessive relationship between surrealist and non-western culture. Describing the travels across Africa, Oceania, Mexico and the Caribbean made by wealthy aesthetes, it combines an insight into the mentality of early twentieth century collectors with an overview of the artistic heritage at stake in these adventures. Featuring more than 70 photographs of artefacts, exhibitions and expeditions-in-progre…
The Lives of Chinese Objects
This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China’s most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers’ and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverp…
Race on display
This paper examines a form of evolutionary display that emerged at Liverpool Museum between 1896 and 1929, one based on racial types. It traces the formation and early history of this institution, as well as the development of evolutionary theories in the mid‐late nineteenth century. The paper moves on to analyse the beliefs and exhibitionary practices of Liverpool Museum's director, Dr Henry Ogg Forbes (1851–1932), and the influence of A.H. Kean…
The empty museum
"The empty museum: Western cultures and the artistic field in modern Japan." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 18(1), pp. 105–106
Heritage management, tourism, and governance in China
The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in domestic tourism in China. An unprecedented peacetime movement of citizens, combined with an expanding middle class with disposable income, has f
Trophies of War
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War (1856-60), Britishand French troops looted and then burnt the imperial buildings in the Yuanmingyuan(known at the time by foreigners as the 'Summer Palace') in the north of Beijing.This widespread destruction of China's most important complex of palaces, andthe dispersal of the imperial art collection, is considered one of the most extremeacts of cultural destruction of the nineteenth ce…
The power of taste
In 1921, a collection of around 800 Chinese ceramics was offered on loan to Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum by Stanley Berkeley Smith (1878–1955), a British banker based in Karachi, who had spent the previous twenty-one years acquiring the objects in India. A Chinese Porcelain Room was duly opened at the museum in 1923. Tastes in Chinese ceramics, however, were changing. From the 1920s, Cheltenham’s curator invited London specialists to inspect B…
Collecting and Displaying China’s “Summer Palace” in the West
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the Summer Palace, this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan—and many of these are now scattered around th…
Curating the Sacred
This article explores issues involved in representing Buddhism in museums, drawing on the author’s experience of curating the Buddhism display at the World Museum Liverpool. It is concerned with processes of de-contextualization and re-contextualization, focussing on whether sacred images become divested of their religious functions once they enter a museum or if, instead, the gallery can be considered an alternative arena for contemplation. The …
Deity and Display
This paper analyses the values and uses of Tibetan sacred artefacts in their original contexts as well as the transformation of meanings once placed in museums. It discusses the perception of statues, paintings, ritual instruments and books from a Tibetan Buddhist perspective, examining the iconographic and iconometric functions of the images, and asserting that a primary purpose is as a 'support for practice' (tib. sku rten, 'body-support'). Sac…
Returning Southeast Asia's Past
The Lives of Chinese Objects
This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo - China's most important pilgrimage island - to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers' and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverp…
History (11 works) · Geography (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Art history (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · China (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works)