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The Lives of Images

The Lives of Images

Mason, P

Mason, P

en
2001
Boek; 176 p ill
Met lijst werken. - Met bio- en bibliografie
Located in: ANTROPOLOGIE EN KUNST
VUBIS: 2:100062

Beschrijving

Peter Mason examines in four striking case studies involving the production and transmission of visual images of non-European peoples. Beginning with what has been taken to be the earliest three-dimensional European representation of Native Americans, he then focuses on the migration of such images via 16th century Meso-American codices to the murals painted by Diego Rivera four centuries later. Mason also looks at the relationship between drawing and engraving of natives of Formosa by Georges Psalmanaazaar, who never traveled to that country. Finally, he examines representations of the native peoples of Tierra del Fuego, from their first encounters with Europeans in the late 16th century to the present, paying particular attention to their visual traces in the work of such well-known artists as Odilon Redon.