Engraving The Savage

Author : Michael Gaudio
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780816648467

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Engraving the Savage by Michael Gaudio Pdf

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.

Author : Brian Hochman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452926728

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Savage Preservation by Brian Hochman Pdf

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers and anthropologists believed that the world’s primitive races were on the brink of extinction. They also believed that films, photographs, and phonographic recordings—modern media in their technological infancy—could capture lasting relics of primitive life before it vanished into obscurity. For many Americans, the promise of media and the problem of race were inextricably linked. While professional ethnologists tried out early recording machines to preserve the sounds of authentic indigenous cultures, photographers and filmmakers hauled newfangled equipment into remote corners of the globe to document rituals and scenes that seemed destined to vanish forever. In Savage Preservation, Brian Hochman shows how widespread interest in recording vanishing races and disappearing cultures influenced audiovisual innovation, experimentation, and use in the United States. Drawing extensively on seldom-seen archival sources—from phonetic alphabets and sign language drawings to wax cylinder recordings and early color photographs—Hochman uncovers the parallel histories of ethnography and technology in the turn-of-the-century period. While conventional wisdom suggests that media technologies work mostly to produce ideas about race, Savage Preservation reveals that the reverse has also been true. During this period, popular conceptions of race constructed the authority of new media technologies as reliable archives of the real. Brimming with nuanced critical insights and unexpected historical connections, Savage Preservation offers a new model for thinking about race and media in the American context—and a fresh take on a period of accelerated technological change that closely resembles our own.

Author : Michael R. Doyle,Selena Savić,Vera Bühlmann
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035619171

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Ghosts of Transparency by Michael R. Doyle,Selena Savić,Vera Bühlmann Pdf

In this book, the editors focus on architecture and communication from various different perspectives – taking into account that the term “architecture” is used for buildings as well as in the context of computer software. Data and software also impact on our cities; raw data, however, do not convey any information – in order to generate information and communication they have to be organized and must make sense to the reader. The contributions avoid clear separation of the various communication spheres of their disciplines. Instead, they use the wide range of approaches to explore meanings – an ambitious aim that leaves the destination wide open; the reader is invited to share in this adventure.

Author : Charles Henry Hart
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1104051389

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Edward Savage, Painter and Engraver: And His Unfinished Copperplate of the Congress Voting Independence (1905) by Charles Henry Hart Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : William Dunlap
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600033285

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History of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States by William Dunlap Pdf

Author : Ginger Nolan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781452965512

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Savage Mind to Savage Machine by Ginger Nolan Pdf

An examination of how concepts of “the savage” facilitated technological approaches to modernist design Attempting to derive aesthetic systems from natural structures of human cognition, designers looked toward the “savage mind”—a way of thinking they associated with a racialized subaltern. In Savage Mind to Savage Machine, Ginger Nolan uncovers an enduring relationship between “the savage” and the development of technology and its wide-ranging impact on society, including in the fields of architecture and urbanism, the industrial arts, and digital design. Nolan focuses on the relationship between the applied arts and the structuralist social sciences, proposing that the late-nineteenth-century rise of Freudian psychology, ethnology, and structuralist linguistics offered innovations and new opportunities in studying human cognition. She looks at institutions ranging from the Public Industrial Arts School of Philadelphia and the Weimar Bauhaus to the MIT Media Lab and the Centre Mondial Informatique, revealing a persistent theme of twentieth-century design: to supplant language with more subliminal, aesthetic modes of communication, thereby inculcating a deep intimacy between human habit and new technologies of production, communication, and consumption. This book’s ultimate critique is of the development of the ergonomics of the spirit—the design of the human cognitive apparatus in relation to new aesthetic technologies. Nolan sees these ergonomics as a means of depoliticizing societies through aesthetic technologies intended to seamlessly integrate humans into the programs of capitalist modernity. Revising key modernist design narratives, Savage Mind to Savage Machine provides a deep historical foundation for understanding our contemporary world.

Author : Sandra Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317034926

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The Early Modern Global South in Print by Sandra Young Pdf

Early modern geographers and compilers of travel narratives drew on a lexicon derived from cartography’s seemingly unchanging coordinates to explain human diversity. Sandra Young’s inquiry into the partisan knowledge practices of early modernity brings to light the emergence of the early modern global south. Young proposes a new set of terms with which to understand the racialized imaginary inscribed in the scholarly texts that presented the peoples of the south as objects of an inquiring gaze from the north. Through maps, images and even textual formatting, equivalences were established between ’new’ worlds, many of them long known to European explorers, she argues, in terms that made explicit the divide between ’north’ and ’south.’ This book takes seriously the role of form in shaping meaning and its ideological consequences. Young examines, in turn, the representational methodologies, or ’artes,’ deployed in mapping the ’whole’ world: illustrating, creating charts for navigation, noting down observations, collecting and cataloguing curiosities, reporting events, formatting materials, and editing and translating old sources. By tracking these methodologies in the lines of beauty and evidence on the page, we can see how early modern producers of knowledge were able to attribute alterity to the ’southern climes’ of an increasingly complex world, while securing their own place within it.

Author : New York State Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : OXFORD:590718319

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Catalogue of the books on bibliography, typography and engraving by New York State Library Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : IOWA:31858033642145

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Bibliographical Contributions by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shankar Raman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748636853

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Renaissance Literatures and Postcolonial Studies by Shankar Raman Pdf

Shows how Renaissance writers and artists struggled to reconcile past traditions with experiences of 'discovery.' In what ways have colonial and postcolonial studies transformed our perceptions of early modern European texts and images? How have those perceptions enriched our broader understanding of the colonial and the postcolonial? Focusing on English, Portuguese, Spanish and French colonial projects, Shankar Raman explains how encounters with new worlds and peoples irrevocably shaped both Europeans and their 'others'. There are in-depth case studies on: the Portuguese drama and epic of Gil Vicente and Luis Vaz de Camoes; travel narratives and exotic engravings from Theodore de Bry's influential compilations; and the English plays and verse of Christopher Marlowe, John Donne and Richard Brome.

Author : Charles R. Hildeburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89054431689

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A Contribution to a Catalogue of the Engraved Works of David Edwin by Charles R. Hildeburn Pdf

Author : James L. Baughman,Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen,James P. Danky
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299302849

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Protest on the Page by James L. Baughman,Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen,James P. Danky Pdf

Explores the intertwined histories of print and protest in the United States from Reconstruction to the 2000s. Ten essays look at how protestors of all political and religious persuasions, as well as aesthetic and ethical temperaments, have used the printed page to wage battles over free speech; test racial, class, sexual, and even culinary boundaries; and to alter the moral landscape in American life.

Author : William Spohn Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : NYPL:33433082395553

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The Engraved Portraits of Washington by William Spohn Baker Pdf

Author : Alan Gallay
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781541645783

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Walter Ralegh by Alan Gallay Pdf

From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a biography of the famed poet, courtier, and colonizer, showing how he laid the foundations of the English Empire Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming empress of a universal empire. She gave him the opportunity to lead the way. In Walter Ralegh, Alan Gallay shows that, while Ralegh may be best known for founding the failed Roanoke colony, his historical importance vastly exceeds that enterprise. Inspired by the mystical religious philosophy of hermeticism, Ralegh led English attempts to colonize in North America, South America, and Ireland. He believed that the answer to English fears of national decline resided overseas -- and that colonialism could be achieved without conquest. Gallay reveals how Ralegh launched the English Empire and an era of colonization that shaped Western history for centuries after his death.

Author : Michael Gaudio
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452960906

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Sound, Image, Silence by Michael Gaudio Pdf

A visionary new approach to the Americas during the age of colonization, made by engaging with the aural aspects of supposedly “silent” images Colonial depictions of the North and South American landscape and its indigenous inhabitants fundamentally transformed the European imagination—but how did those images reach Europe, and how did they make their impact? In Sound, Image, Silence, noted art historian Michael Gaudio provides a groundbreaking examination of the colonial Americas by exploring the special role that aural imagination played in visible representations of the New World. Considering a diverse body of images that cover four hundred years of Atlantic history, Sound, Image, Silence addresses an important need within art history: to give hearing its due as a sense that can inform our understanding of images. Gaudio locates the noise of the pagan dance, the discord of battle, the din of revivalist religion, and the sublime sounds of nature in the Americas, such as lightning, thunder, and the waterfall. He invites readers to listen to visual media that seem deceptively couched in silence, offering bold new ideas on how art historians can engage with sound in inherently “mute” media. Sound, Image, Silence includes readings of Brazilian landscapes by the Dutch painter Frans Post, a London portrait of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison’s early Kinetoscope film Sioux Ghost Dance, and the work of Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of American landscape painting. It masterfully fuses a diversity of work across vast social, cultural, and spatial distances, giving us both a new way of understanding sound in art and a powerful new vision of the New World.