Europe Views the World, 1500-1700 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781848225473)

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.

Author: Larry Silver
ISBN-10: 1848225474
ISBN-13: 9781848225473
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2022
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.12lbs
Size: 10.07h x 7.87w x 0.86d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2023