Haworth Shanghai Bio · 2016-10-05 · Anne Haworth Anne is a Lecturer at the V&A. Guide for...
Transcript of Haworth Shanghai Bio · 2016-10-05 · Anne Haworth Anne is a Lecturer at the V&A. Guide for...
Art, Architecture and Style in Old Shanghai - Anne Haworth BA (Hons)
The lecture follows Shanghai's history through
its art and architecture, a potent hybrid of East
and West. Once known as The Paris of the
East, Shanghai developed as a Treaty Port
after the 19th century Opium Wars, when
imposing banks, offices or grand houses in the
classical or gothic style were built by
representatives of Western trading companies.
These contrasted with the humble yet
Apicturesque dwellings for local Chinese.
Shanghai's heyday came in the 1930s, when
the city was populated by White Russian
emigrés, Jewish refugees, gangsters and sing-
song girls and when stylish apartment blocks
and hotels were built in a glamorous Art Deco
style. The Western-style Bund with its famous
Peace Hotel built by Victor Sassoon
represents this heady fusion of cultures. Much
original architecture survived up to the 1990s,
when the city emerged as a major Asian
financial centre, dominated by glittering
skyscrapers and with a vibrant contemporary
art market. Original photographs of traditional
buildings taken by me in 1995 and 1996 are
included, to give a flavour of ‘Old Shanghai’.
Most of these buildings have since been
demolished in the city’s rapid modernisation.
Anne Haworth Anne is a Lecturer at the V&A. Guide for private tours of the State Rooms and The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace. Lecturer in British Painting for American students resident in London. In Autumn 2002, catalogued collection of Chinese porcelain at Kensington Palace. From 2002 to 2005, a committee member of the French Porcelain Society. From 1995 to 2002, was resident in Shanghai, China, visited ancient kiln sites and lectured to expatriate groups. From 1981 to 1995, trained and became a senior ceramics specialist at Christie's and Bonhams head offices.