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Author:
Gaudio, Michael.
Title:
Engraving the savage : the New World and techniques of civilization / Michael Gaudio.
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press,
Copyright Date:
c2008
Description:
xxv, 207 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Subject:
Indians in art.
America--Historiography.--Historiography.
Difference (Philosophy) in art.
Art--Reproduction.
Prints--Technique.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-199) and index.
Contents:
The art of scratch: wood engraving and picture-writing in the 1880s. Savage marks: the scriptive techniques of early modern ethnography -- Making sense of smoke: engraving and ornament in de Bry's America -- Flatness and protuberance: reforming the image in Protestant print culture -- The art of scratch: wood engraving and picture-writing in the 1880s.
ISBN:
0816648476 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816648474 (pb : alk. paper)
0816648468 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816648467 (hc : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2007031468
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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