Louise Tythacott

Professor

Research Student Supervision Interests

Elizabeth Reid (external supervisor), "Chinese Art Exhibitions at the Whitechapel Art Gallery: An Investigation into the meaning and significance of the exhibitions of Chinese art held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery between 1901 and 1934". Start: 20/09/2015.

Organisational affiliations

Education/Academic qualification

  • PhD, History of Art, University of Manchester

  • Advanced Diploma, Language Studies (other/general), University of Westminster

    Mandarin and Cantonese

  • BA (Hons), Social Anthropology, University of Kent

    Social Anthropology with Southeast Asian Studies

Contact

Key Publications

  1. Deity and Display: Meanings, Transformations, and Exhibitions of Tibetan Buddhist Objects

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  2. Returning Southeast Asia's Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  3. Collecting and Returning Southeast Asia's Past

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  4. The Looting of Koh Ker and the Return of the Prasat Chen statues

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  5. Military Histories of 'Summer Palace' Objects from China

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  6. Transforming Chemde Museum: Monastic Curating and Co-Curating in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Ladakh

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  7. Curiosity, Loot and Art: A Brief History of Collecting Chinese objects in the West

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  8. Problems, Practices, and Politics of Provenancing Objects from China’s Yuanmingyuan

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  9. Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  10. The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  11. Exhibiting and Auctioning Yuanmingyuan ('Summer Palace') Loot in 1860s and 1870s London: The Elgin and Negroni Collections

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  12. Curating the Sacred: Exhibiting Buddhism at World Museum Liverpool

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  13. Review of: UNESCO in Southeast Asia: World Heritage Sites in Comparative Perspective. University of Hawaii Press, 2015

    Research output: Other contribution

  14. '英国军事类博物馆中的圆明园文物

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  15. Review of: The Great Chinese Art Transfer: How so Much of China's Art Came to America by Michael St. Clair, Rowman Littlefied, 2016.

    Research output: Other contribution

  16. The power of taste: the dispersal of the Berkeley Smith collection of Chinese ceramics at Cheltenham Art Gallery Museum (1921-1960)

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  17. British travels in China during the Opium Wars (1839-1860): Shifting Images and Perceptions

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  18. Trophies of War: Representing 'Summer Palace' Loot in Military Museums in the UK

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  19. Review of 'Heritage Management, Tourism, and Governance in China: Managing the Past to Serve the Present'

    Research output: Other contribution

  20. Museums and Restitution: An Introduction

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  21. Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  22. Review of 'Translating Museums: A Counterhistory of South Asian Museology' by Shaila Bhatti

    Research output: Other contribution

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