Artistic Exchange Between China and Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Dawn Odell, PhD
Associate Professor of Art History, Lewis & Clark College
​6 March, 2021
9:30 - 11:00 am PDT
In this presentation, Professor Dawn Odell discusses the circulation of art works between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This was a period in which merchants and missionaries frequently travelled the world, as did porcelain, printed books, maps, paintings, clocks and other mechanical devices, tapestries, and furniture. Join First Saturday PDX as Professor Odell focuses on the Dutch role in the trade with Asia and specifically on the Dutch response to Chinese art. For the many Netherlandish citizens who would never travel beyond the walls of their small towns, what did art tell them about another region of the world? 

​About the speaker:  
Dawn Odell received her BA from Carleton College, her MA in East Asian studies from Harvard University, and her PhD in art history from the University of Chicago. She teaches courses on early modern European and Asian art at Lewis & Clark College. She is currently writing a book about Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest, an eighteenth-century Dutch immigrant to the newly formed United States, and his extraordinary collection of Chinese art.​
Video of this presentation can be seen here
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