书名：Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia / 美洲制造：新世界发现亚洲
定价：350.0
ISBN：9780878468126
作者：Dennis Carr
版次：1
出版时间：2015-01

内容提要：

题 目：Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia / 美洲制造：新世界发现亚洲

作 者：Dennis Carr

出 版：MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston，2015

装 帧：精装，160页

尺 寸：20.3*26.6 cm

 

 

The spectacular arts of the first global age fostered by a rich cultural interchange between Asia and the Americas

 

Made in the Americas reveals the overlooked history of Asia's profound influence 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 Asian 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 told by the objects gathered in Made in the Americas bring to life the rich cultural interchange and the spectacular arts of the first global age.