Encounters
Subtitle: the meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500-1800
By: edited by Anna Jackson & Amin Jaffer.
Contributors: Jackson, Anna; Jaffer, Amin.
Publisher: V & A; Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Art, Asian.; Art, European.; East and West.; Art, European -- Oriental influences.; Art, Asian -- European influences.; Asia -- Relations -- Europe.; Europe -- Relations -- Asia.; Asia -- Commerce -- Europe -- History.; Europe -- Commerce -- Asia -- History.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-382) and index.
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the V & A, 23 September - 5 December 2004.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  : the meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500-1800 / Anna Jackson and Amin Jaffer; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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.