Research Catalog

Title

Encounters : the meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500-1800 / edited by Anna Jackson & Amin Jaffer.

Publication

London : V & A ; New York : Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jackson, Anna (Anna M. F.)
• Jaffer, Amin.
• Victoria and Albert Museum

Description

395 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.); 30 cm.

Summary

"This book accompanies a major V & A exhibition that explores three hundred years of mutual fascination between East and West, a period of discoveries, encounters and exchanges initiated by the Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama's discovery of a sea route to India in 1498. This established, for the first time, direct relations between Europe and maritime Asia and ushered in a dynamic period of commercial, artistic and technological exchange. This story is presented through wide-ranging essays by leading international scholars, including specialists from the V & A. The text is complemented by a sumptuous range of images, many of these remarkable and luxurious pieces being published for the first time." "In its close examination of the relationships - diplomatic, religious and personal - between East and West, this book provides both an important scholarly record of this vibrant period in world history and a document of the works of art and industry that it produced."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500-1800

Subject

• Art, European > Asian influences
• Art, Asian
• Art, European
• East and West
• Art, Asian > European influences
• Art, European > Oriental influences
• Asia > Relations > Europe
• Europe > Relations > Asia
• Asia > Commerce > History. > Europe
• Europe > Commerce > History. > Asia

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Published to accompany an exhibition held at the V & A, 23 September - 5 December 2004.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-382) and index.

Contents

Introduction : the meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500-1800 / Anna Jackson and Amin Jaffer -- pt. 1. Discoveries. Mapping the world / David Woodward ; Raritites and novelties / Annemarie Jordan Gschwend ; Chinese porcelain in early European collections / Rose Kerr ; Asian trade and exchange before 1600 / John Guy -- pt. 2. Encounters. Diplomatic encounters : Europe and South Asia / Amin Jaffer ; Diplomatic encounters : Europe and East Asia / James L. Hevia ; Religious encounters : Christianity in Asia / Gauvin Alexander Bailey ; Portuguese settlements and trading centres / Paulo Varela Gomes ; Dutch settlements and trading centres / Leonard Blussé ; British settlements and trading centres / J.P. Losty ; Personal encounters : Europeans in South Asia / William Dalrymple ; Personal encounters : Europeans in South-East Asia / Leonard Blussé ; Personal encounters : Europeans in East Asia / Rupert Faulkner ; Visual responses : depicting Europeans in South Asia / Rosemary Crill ; Visual responses : depicting Europeans in East Asia / Anna Jackson -- pt. 3. Exchanges. Asia in Europe : porcelain and enamel for the West / Rose Kerr ; Asia in Europe : lacquer for the West/ Julia Hutt ; Asia in Europe : furniture for the West / Amin Jaffer ; Asia in Europe : textiles for the West / Rosemary Crill ; Asia in Europe : Chinese paintings for the West / William R. Sargent ; Europe in Asia : the impact of Western art and technology in South Asia / Susan Stronge ; Europe in Asia : the impact of Western art and technology in China / Catherine Pagani ; Europe in Asia : the impact of Western art and technology in Japan / Timon Screech ; Indian fantasies in Europe / Sally North ; Chinese fantasies of Europe / Ming Wilson ; European fantasies of Asia / Steven Parissien.

ISBN

1851774327 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2005432236

OCLC

• 56652718
• SCSB-10162680

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library