Prints as Agents of Global Exchange : : 1500-1800 / / ed. by Heather Madar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Báez, Linda,; Carreón, Emilie,; Gallori, Corinna T.,; Madar, Heather,; Merian, Sylvie L.,; Orii, Yoshimi,; Preisinger, Raphaèle,; Ragazzi, Alexandre,; Smentek, Kristel,; Waraich, Saleema,
• HerausgeberIn: Madar, Heather,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 ; 31
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)

The significance of the media and communications revolution occasioned by printmaking was profound. Less a part of the standard narrative of printmaking’s significance is recognition of the frequency with which the widespread dissemination of printed works also occurred beyond the borders of Europe and consideration of the impact of this broader movement of printed objects. Within a decade of the invention of the printing press, European prints began to move globally. Over the course of the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, numerous prints produced in Europe traveled to areas as varied as Turkey, India, Persia, Ethiopia, China, Japan and the Americas, where they were taken by missionaries, artists, travelers, merchants and diplomats. This collection of essays explores the transmission of knowledge, both written and visual, between Europe and the rest of the world by means of prints in the early modern period.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Concealing and Revealing the Female Body in European Prints and Mughal Paintings -- 2 The Sultan’s Face Looks East and West: European Prints and Ottoman Sultan Portraiture -- 3 From Europe to Persia and Back Again : Border-Crossing Prints and the Asymmetries of Early Modern Cultural Encounter -- 4 The Dissemination of Western European Prints Eastward: The Armenian Case -- 5 The Catholic Reformation and Japanese Hidden Christians: Books as Historical Ties -- 6 (Re)framing the Virgin of Guadalupe : The Concurrence of Early Modern Prints and Colonial Devotions in Creating the Virgin -- 7 Hidden Resemblances: Re-contextualized and Re-framed : Diego de Valadés’ Cross Cultural Exchange -- 8 The Practice of Art: Auxiliary Plastic Models and Prints in Italy, Spain, and Peru -- 9 Ink and Feathers: Prints, Printed Books, and Mexican Featherwork -- Index