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Made in the Americas - The New World Discovers Asia (Hardcover)
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Made in the Americas - The New World Discovers Asia (Hardcover)
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Made in the Americas reveals the largely overlooked history of the
profound influence of Asia 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 Asia
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 these objects tell, compellingly related by leading art
historians, bring to life the rich cultural interchange and the
spectacular arts of the first global age.
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