Engraving the savage : the New World and techniques of civilization

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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Main Author: Gaudio, Michael (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2008
Subjects:
America > Discovery and exploration > Historiography
America
Online Access:http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/jstor-ebooks-art/www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttts63r
Related Items:Print version: Engraving the savage
Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Gaudio, Michael, Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization]
Author Notes:Michael Gaudio
E-Book Packages:JSTOR E-Books in Art, Design and Photography
Table of Contents:
  • 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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