Made in the Americas by Dennis Carr

Made in the Americas by Dennis Carr

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.

Brook, Timothy: -

Timothy Brook is the author of several books, including Vermeer's Hat, Confusions of Pleasure, and Great State. He is a professor and writer on Chinese and world history at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. A native of Toronto and graduate of the University of Toronto, he moved from Toronto in 2004 to become principal of St. John's College at UBC, where he was named to the Republic of China Chair. He previously held positions at the University of Alberta, Stanford University, and the University of Oxford, where he was Shaw Professor of Chinese from 2007 to 2009.

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ISBN 13	9780878468126
ISBN 10	0878468129
Title	Made in the Americas
Author	Dennis Carr
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Museum of Fine Arts,Boston
Year published	2015-08-03
Number of pages	160
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