SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Tythacott, Louise (2011) The Lives of Chinese Objects: Buddhism, Imperialism and Display. Oxford and New York: Berghahn. (Museums and Collections)

Tythacott, Louise (2003) Surrealism and the Exotic. London: Routledge.

Tythacott, Louise (2001) Musical Instruments. Hove: Wayland Publishers. (Traditions around the world)

Tythacott, Louise (1995) Dance. Hove: Wayland Publishers. (Traditions around the world)

Tythacott, Louise (1994) Jewellery and Accessories. Hove: Wayland Publishers.

Tythacott, Louise (1994) Kinyozi : the art of African hairstyles. Brighton: Green Centre for Non-Western Art and Culture.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Luczanits, Christian and Tythacott, Louise, eds. (2024) Tibetan Buddhist Monastery Collections and Museums. Kathmandu: Vajra Academic. (Vajra Academic Series vol. 6) (Forthcoming)

Tythacott, Louise and Ardiyansyah, Panggah, eds. (2021) Returning Southeast Asia’s Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution. Singapore: NUS Press. (Art and Archaeology of Southeast Asia: Hindu-Buddhist Traditions)

Tythacott, Louise, ed. (2017) Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France. Abingdon; New York, NY: Routledge.

Tythacott, Louise and Arvanitis, Kostas, eds. (2014) Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches. Farnham: Ashgate.

Hilty, Greg, Reason, David, Shelton, Anthony, Tythacott, Louise and Coleby, Nicola, eds. (1995) Hold: acquisition, representation, perception: work by Shirley Chubb. Brighton: Green Centre for Non-Western Art and Culture. (Catalogues and occasional papers series ; 2)

Book Chapters

Tythacott, Louise (2025) 'Transforming Chemrey Museum: Monastic Curating and Co-Curating in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Ladakh.' In: Cai, Yunci, (ed.), The Museum in Asia. London: Routledge, pp. 115-128. (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies) (Forthcoming)

Tythacott, Louise (2025) 'Curiosity, Loot and Art: A Brief History of Collecting Chinese objects in the West.' In: Ates, Guler, (ed.), The MAO: The Museum and the East, Artists book of the Museum of Oriental Art (MAO), Turin. Turin: MAO. (Forthcoming)

Tythacott, Louise (2025) 'Two Japanese lacquer Boxes in the Thiers collection.' In: La Chine de Monsieur Thiers. Paris: Louvre Museum. (Forthcoming)

Tythacott, Louise and Lei, Shichun (2024) 'Artwork from the Yuanming yuan in British and French Museums.' In: Yang, Xu (Xander), (ed.), Yuan Ming Yuan: Art and Culture of an Imperial Garden-Palace. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Palace Museum, pp. 82-93.

Luczanits, Christian and Tythacott, Louise (2024) 'Introduction.' In: Luczanits, Christian and Tythacott, Louise, (eds.), Tibetan Buddhist Monastery Collections and Museums: Traditional Practices and Contemporary Issues. Kathmandu: Vajra Academic, pp. 13-25. (Vajra Academic Series vol. 6)

Luczanits, Christian and Tythacott, Louise (2024) 'Monastery and Museum in Ladakh and Mustang.' In: Luczanits, Christian and Tythacott, Louise, (eds.), Tibetan Buddhist Monastery Collections and Museums: Traditional Practices and Contemporary Issues. Kathmandu: Vajra Academic, pp. 27-87. (Vajra Academic Series vol. 6)

Tythacott, Louise and Shichun, Lei (2024) '英国和法国博物馆藏圆明园文物.' In: Xu, Yang, (ed.), 圆明园—清代皇家园居文化. 香港: 香港故宫文化博物馆 = Hong Kong Palace Museum..

Tythacott, Louise and Ardiyansyah, Panggah (2021) 'Collecting and Returning Southeast Asia’s Past.' In: Tythacott, Louise and Ardiyansyah, Panggah, (eds.), Returning Southeast Asia's Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution. Singapore: NUS Press, pp. 1-37.

Tythacott, Louise, Chea, Socheat and Muong, Chanraksmey (2021) 'The Looting of Koh Ker and the Return of the Prasat Chen statues.' In: Tythacott, Louise and Ardiyansyah, Panggah, (eds.), Returning Southeast Asia's Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution. Singapore: NUS Press, pp. 62-86.

Tythacott, Louise (2020) 'Military Histories of ‘Summer Palace’ objects from China in military museums in the United Kingdom.' In: Lidchi, Henrietta and Allan, Stuart, (eds.), Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collecting and the British Empire. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 187-204. (Studies in Imperialism)

Tythacott, Louise (2019) 'Problems, Practices and Politics of Provenancing objects from China’s Yuanmingyuan.' In: Milosch, Jane and Pearce, Nick, (eds.), Collecting and Provenance: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 359-370.

Pierson, Stacey (2018) '"True Beauty of Form and Chaste Embellishment": Summer Palace Loot and Chinese Porcelain Collecting in Nineteenth-century Britain.' In: Tythacott, Louise, (ed.), Collecting and Displaying China's "Summer Palace" in the West. The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 72-86. (The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950)

Tythacott, Louise (2018) 'The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects.' In: Tythacott, Louise, (ed.), Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France. Abingdon; New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 3-24.

Tythacott, Louise (2016) 'British travels in China during the Opium Wars (1839-1860): Shifting Images and Perceptions.' In: Hill, Kate, (ed.), Britain and the Narration of Travel in the Nineteenth Century: Texts, Images, Objects. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 191-208.

Tythacott, Louise and Arvanitis, Kostas (2014) 'Introduction: Museums and Restitution.' In: Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 1-18.

Tythacott, Louise (2012) 'Classifying China: shifting interpretations of Buddhist bronzes in Liverpool Museum, 1867-1997.' In: Hill, Kate, (ed.), Museums and Biographies: Stories, Objects, Identities. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, pp. 173-185.

Tythacott, Louise (2010) 'The Politics of Representation in Museums.' In: Bates, Marcia J., (ed.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. London: Taylor and Francis, pp. 4230-4241.

Tythacott, Louise (2001) 'From the ‘fetish’ to the ‘specimen’: the Ridyard African collection at the Liverpool Museum 1895-1916.' In: Shelton, Anthony, (ed.), Collectors: expressions of self and other. London: Horniman Museum, pp. 157-179.

Tythacott, Louise (2000) 'Souvenirs of the travelling surrealists.' In: Hitchcock, Michael and Teague, Ken, (eds.), Souvenirs: the material culture of tourism. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 72-77.

Tythacott, Louise (1995) 'Eastern Asia.' In: O'Neill, Cynthia, Casterton, Peter and Headlam, Catherine, (eds.), Kingfisher Book of Mythology. London: Larousse, pp. 100-125.

Tythacott, Louise (1995) 'The Theatre of the Incorporeal.' In: Benewick, Robert and Donald, Stephanie, (eds.), Belief in China: Art and Politics; Deities and Mortality. Brighton: Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums, pp. 19-27.

Tythacott, Louise (1994) 'Kinyozi: African Art between the boundaries.' In: Kinyozi: The Art of African Hairstyles. Brighton: Green Centre for Non-Western Art, pp. 9-21.

Journal Article

Tythacott, Louise and Bellini, Chiara (2020) 'Deity and Display: Meanings, Transformations, and Exhibitions of Tibetan Buddhist Objects.' Religions, 11 (3).

Tythacott, Louise (2018) 'Exhibiting and Auctioning Yuanmingyuan (“Summer Palace”) Loot in 1860s and 1870s London: The Elgin and Negroni Collections.' Journal for Art Market Studies, 2 (3). pp. 1-15.

Tythacott, Louise (2017) 'Curating the Sacred: Exhibiting Buddhism at World Museum Liverpool.' Buddhist Studies Review, 34 (1). pp. 115-133.

Tythacott, Louise (2017) '英国军事类博物馆中的圆明园文物.' 美成在久 [Chinese Orientations], Sept. pp. 108-111.

Tythacott, Louise (2016) 'The power of taste: the dispersal of the Berkeley Smith collection of Chinese ceramics at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum (1921-1960).' Journal of the History of Collections, 28 (2). pp. 327-343.

Tythacott, Louise (2015) 'Trophies of War: Representing ‘Summer Palace’ Loot in Military Museums in the UK.' Museum and Society, 13 (4). pp. 469-488.

Tythacott, Louise (2011) 'Race on display: the “Melanian”, “Mongolian” and “Caucasian” galleries at Liverpool Museum (1896-1929).' Early Popular Visual Culture, 9 (2). pp. 131-146.

Tythacott, Louise (2010) 'Curiosities, Antiquities, Art Treasure, Commodities: collecting Chinese deity figures in mid-nineteenth-century England.' Journal of Museum Ethnography, 23. pp. 56-71.

Tythacott, Louise (2009) 'Sacred Island Deities.' Apollo: a journal of the arts, 169 (563). pp. 90-97.

Tythacott, Louise (2000) 'Khmer.' The Millennium Encyclopaedia. pp. 25-40.

Tythacott, Louise (1999) 'A Convulsive Beauty: Surrealism, Oceania and African Art.' Journal of Museum Ethnography (11). pp. 43-53.

Tythacott, Louise (1998) 'The African Collection at Liverpool Museum.' African Arts, 31 (3). pp. 18-35.

Tythacott, Louise (1993) 'Colonel Green's Burma: Peoples and Textiles of the 1920s.' The Royal Pavilion Review (1). pp. 3-7.

Tythacott, Louise (1992) 'Chinese Robes in the Ethnography Gallery.' The Royal Pavilion Review (2). pp. 10-12.

Tythacott, Louise (1991) 'The Ernest Box Collection of Chinese Deities in Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.' The Royal Pavilion Review (2). pp. 8-10.

Book Reviews

Tythacott, Louise (2017) 'Review of: UNESCO in Southeast Asia: World Heritage Sites in Comparative Perspective. University of Hawaii Press, 2015.' South East Asia Research, 25 (1). pp. 98-100.

Tythacott, Louise (2016) 'Review of: The Great Chinese Art Transfer: How so Much of China’s Art Came to America by Michael St. Clair, Rowman and Littlefied, 2016.' The China Quarterly, 228 (December). pp. 1140-1142.

Tythacott, Louise (2015) 'Review of 'Heritage Management, Tourism, and Governance in China: Managing the Past to Serve the Present'.' International Journal of Heritage Studies, 21 (8). pp. 841-842.

Tythacott, Louise (2014) 'Review of 'Translating Museums: A Counterhistory of South Asian Museology' by Shaila Bhatti.' Museum History Journal, 7 (1). pp. 122-123.

Tythacott, Louise (2012) 'Review of 'The Empty Museum: Western Cultures and the Artistic Field in Modern Japan' by Masaaki Morishita.' International Journal of Heritage Studies, 18 (1). pp. 732-733.

Tythacott, Louise (2008) 'Review of 'Imperialism, Art and Restitution', edited by John Henry Merryman.' American Journal of Archaeology, 11 (2.3). pp. 1-2.

Tythacott, Louise (1997) 'Review of Valery M. Garrett, 'Chinese Clothing: an illustrated guide'.' The China Quarterly, 151 . pp. 682-684.

Shows/Exhibitions

Tythacott, Louise (2005) Asia Gallery (part of the World Cultures Gallery). [Shows/Exhibitions]

Tythacott, Louise (1996) The Impossible Science of Being: Dialogues Between Anthropology and Photography. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Tythacott, Louise (1996) Land of Tempests: New Art from Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Tythacott, Louise (1995) Fetishism: Visualising Power and Desire. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Tythacott, Louise (1995) Hold: Recent Work by Shirley Chubb. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Tythacott, Louise (1994) Kinyozi: The Art of African Hairstyles. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Tythacott, Louise (1993) Textiles from Burma. [Shows/Exhibitions]