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Engraving the Savage - The New World and Techniques of Civilization (Paperback)
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Engraving the Savage - The New World and Techniques of Civilization (Paperback)
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In 1585, the British painter and explorer John White created images
of Carolina Algonquian Indians. These images were collected and
engraved in 1590 by the Flemish publisher and printmaker Theodor de
Bry and were reproduced widely, establishing the visual prototype
of North American Indians for European and Euro-American readers.
In this innovative analysis, Michael Gaudio explains how popular
engravings of Native American Indians defined the nature of Western
civilization by producing an image of its "savage other." Going
beyond the notion of the "savage" as an intellectual and
ideological construct, Gaudio examines how the tools, materials,
and techniques of copperplate engraving shaped Western responses to
indigenous peoples. Engraving the Savage "demonstrates that the
early visual critics of the engravings attempted-without complete
success-to open a comfortable space between their own "civil"
image-making practices and the "savage" practices of Native
Americans-such as tattooing, bodily ornamentation, picture-writing,
and idol worship. The real significance of these ethnographic
engravings, he contends, lies in the traces they leave of a
struggle to create meaning from the image of the American Indian.
The visual culture of engraving and what it shows, Gaudio reasons,
is critical to grasping how America was first understood in the
European imagination. His interpretations of de Bry's engravings
describe a deeply ambivalent pictorial space in between" civil and
savage-a space in which these two organizing concepts of Western
culture are revealed in their making.
Michael Gaudio is assistant professor of art history at the
University of Minnesota.
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