Europe views the world, c.1500-1700 / Larry Silver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silver, Larry, 1947- author.

Series:

Northern lights (London, England)

Northern lights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and globalization--Europe.

Art and globalization.

Art, European--Themes, motives.

Art, European.

Exoticism in art.

Art, Medieval--Europe, Northern.

Art, Medieval.

Art, Renaissance--Europe, Northern.

Art, Renaissance.

Europe.

Northern Europe.

Physical Description:

200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Europe views the world, 1500-1700

Place of Publication:

London : Lund Humphries, 2022.

Summary:

"Europe Views the World examines the wide diversity of images that Europeans produced to represent the wide variety of peoples and places around the globe during and after the so-called 'Age of Exploration.' Beginning with the medieval imagery of Europe's imagined alien races, and with an emphasis on the artists of Northern Europe, Larry Silver takes the reader on a tour across continents, from the Americas to Africa and Asia. Encompassing works such as prints, paintings, maps, tapestries, and sculptural objects, this book addresses the overall question of an emerging European self-definition through the evidence of visual culture, however biased, about the wider world in its component parts. Unique to this book, each chapter concludes with an 'in response,' analysing representations of Europeans by indigenous peoples of each continent to give a deeper and more multi-faceted account of the impact of Europe's view of the world."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction: Monsters and Aliens in Medieval European Imagination

Muslims: From Saracens to Turks

The Americas

Africa

India

East Asia

Conclusions: The New 18th Century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-195) and index.

ISBN:

9781848225473

1848225474

OCLC:

1347277437