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Europe Views the World, 1500-1700

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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.
Larry Silver is an art historian and writer. He is Farquhar Professor of History of Art, emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania and has written and contributed to numerous publications including Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Rembrandt's Holland (Reaktion Books, 2017).
Preface to an Early Modern Global Art History; Introduction: Monsters and Aliens in Medieval European Imagination; 1. Muslims - From Saracens to Turks; 2. The Americas; 3. Africa; 4. India Ink; 5. East Asia; Conclusions: The New Eighteenth Century; Acknowledgments; Suggested Further Reading and Bibliography
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