Title: Encounters
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.
Subjects: East and West, Commerce, Relations, European Art, European influences, Oriental influences, Asian Art, History, History Of Art / Art & Design Styles, c 1500 to c 1600, c 1600 to c 1700, c 1700 to c 1800, Asian, Art & Art Instruction, ASIA, Europe, Art, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General, Design - Decorative, Art / History / Asian, Culture, International relations, Business, Art, european--asian influences, Art, asian, Art, european, Art, asian--european influences, Art, european--oriental influences, Commerce--history, Nx628 .e53 2004, 709.5'0903, Asian influences
Places: Europe, Asia