Engraving the savage : the New World and techniques of civilization /

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In this innovative analysis, Michael Gaudio explains how popular engravings of Native American Indians defined the nature of Western civilization by producing an image of its "savage other." Going beyond the notion of the "savage" as an intellectual and ideological construct, Gau...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gaudio, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Indians in art.
Difference (Philosophy) in art.
Art > Reproduction.
Prints > Technique.
Peuples autochtones dans l'art.
Différence (Philosophie) dans l'art.
Estampe > Technique.
copies (derivative objects)
printmaking.
ART > Subjects & Themes > Portraits.
ART > Subjects & Themes > Human Figure.
ART > History > General.
Art > Reproduction
Difference (Philosophy) in art
Indians in art
Prints > Technique
America > Discovery and exploration > Historiography.
America
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: White pebbles in the dark forest
  • Savage marks: the scriptive techniques of early modern ethnography
  • Making sense of smoke: engraving and ornament in de Bry's America
  • Flatness and protuberance: reforming the image in Protestant print culture
  • The art of scratch: wood engraving and picture-writing in the 1880s.

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