Engraving the savage
Subtitle: the New World and techniques of civilization
By: Michael Gaudio.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780816648467; 9780816648474
Subjects: Indians in art; Difference (Philosophy) in art; Art -- Reproduction; Prints -- Technique; America -- Discovery and exploration -- European -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: White pebbles in the dark forest; title: Savage marks: The scriptive techniques of early modern ethnography; title: Making sense of smoke: Engraving and ornament in de Bry's America; title: Flatness and protuberance: Reforming the image in Protestant print culture; title: The art of scratch: Wood engraving and picture-writing in the 1880s.