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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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VerfasserIn: Gaudio, Michael (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Online-Ressource Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2008
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Online Zugang:http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/jstor-ebooks-art/www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttts63r
Bibliogr. Hinweis:Print version: Engraving the savage
Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Gaudio, Michael, Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization]
Verantwortlich:Michael Gaudio
E-Book-Pakete:JSTOR E-Books in Art, Design and Photography
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.