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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Gaudio, Michael
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Prints > Technique
Indians in art
Difference (Philosophy) in art
Art > Reproduction
ART > History > General.
ART > Subjects & Themes > Human Figure.
ART > Subjects & Themes > Portraits.
printmaking.
copies (derivative objects)
Estampe > Technique.
Art > Reproduction.
Difference (Philosophie) dans l'art.
Indiens d'Amerique dans l'art.
Prints > Technique.
Difference (Philosophy) in art.
Indians in art.
America
America > Discovery and exploration > Historiography.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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