Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia - Hardcover

Dennis Carr; Gauvin Alexander Bailey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878468129 ISBN 13: 9780878468126

Verlag: MFA Publications - The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2015

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A must-read catalog--Lee Lawrence "Wall Street Journal " Made in the Americas tells the story of centuries of cross-fertilization that followed the opening of trade between Europe and Asia; the Americas, in the middle of many oceanic routes, was the place where traditions melded in the most imaginative ways.--The Economist

Reseña del editor:

Made in the Americas reveals the largely overlooked history of the profound influence of Asia on the arts of the colonial Americas. Beginning in the 16th century, European outposts in the New World, especially those in New Spain, became a major nexus of the Asia export trade. Craftsmen from Canada to Peru, inspired by the sophisticated designs and advanced techniques of these imported goods, combined Asian styles with local traditions to produce unparalleled furniture, silverwork, textiles, ceramics, lacquer, painting, and architectural ornaments. Among the exquisite objects featured in this book, from across the hemisphere and spanning the 17th to the early 19th centuries, are folding screens made in Mexico, in imitation of imported Japanese and Chinese screens; blue-and-white talavera ceramics copied from Chinese porcelains; luxuriously woven textiles, made to replicate fine silks and cottons from China and India; devotional statues that adapt Buddhist gods into Christian saints; and japanned furniture produced in Boston that simulates Asian lacquer finishes. The stories these objects tell, compellingly related by leading art historians, bring to life the rich cultural interchange and the spectacular arts of the first global age.

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• Verlag: MFA Publications - The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0878468129
• ISBN 13: 9780878468126
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160