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Journeys East : Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia by Alan Chong; Isabella Stewart Gardner; Christine M. E Guth; Noriko Murai; Exhibition Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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In 1883, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband embarked on a trip that would take them from Boston, across the Unites States and the Pacific, to Japan, China Cambodia and finally, the India of the Raj. Travelling in the wake of recent Western expansion into Asia, they were privileged guests in a world convulsed by colliding forces and identities. They visited ancient temples; met missionaries and colonial officials; toured rubble left but anti-Western riots; camped at Angkhor Wat but took first-class trains throughout India. Isabella kept a diary, bought photographs, and assembled a travel album. Back home, she became a pioneering collector of Asian art. 'Journeys East' reconstructs the Gardners' epic journey with illustrations from Isabella's albums and quotations from her diary and her husband's letters and notes. Isabella's evolving relationship to Asia is the subject of essays by Alan Chong, Noriko Murai, and Christine Guth, amoth other major authorities, that consider a broad range of topics, from the Japanese tea ceremony to her selection and display of Asian art at her extraordinary museum in Boston. A new kind of book, 'Journeys East' combines the history of travel and c

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Author

Alan Chong; Isabella Stewart Gardner; Christine M. E Guth; Noriko Murai; Exhibition Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Publisher

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Published in association with Gutenberg Periscope Publishing; Periscope Pub

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781934772751

Category

history

Subjects

History, Travel, Art

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14