Author: Albert van der EeckhoutPublisher: Spotlight Poets
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Discovering Brazil with Albert Eckhout (1610-1666)
Author: Albert van der EeckhoutPublisher: Spotlight Poets
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Albert Eckhout
Author: Quentin BuvelotPublisher:
ISBN: 9789040089732
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Culture and Customs of Brazil
Author: George WoodyardPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313089531
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Race, religion, language, culture, and national character are full of contradictions. Brazil, the largest country in South America, embodies so much paradox that it defies neat description. This book will help students and general readers dispel stereotypes of Brazil and begin to understand what country's bigness means in terms of its land, people, history, society, and cultural expressions. This is the only authoritative yet accessible volume on Brazil that surveys a wide range of important topics, from geography, to social customs, art, architecture, and more. Highlights include discussions of the fluid definitions of race, rituals of candomble, the importance of extended family networks, beach culture, and soccer madness. A chronology and glossary supplement the text.
Antiques
Author: With Heart and Soul
Author: Peter van der PloegPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Américas
Author: Visual Voyages
Author: Daniela BleichmarPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300224028
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An unprecedented visual exploration of the intertwined histories of art and science, of the old world and the new From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world played a central role in shaping how people on both sides of the Atlantic understood and imaged the region we now know as Latin America. Nature provided incentives for exploration, commodities for trade, specimens for scientific investigation, and manifestations of divine forces. It also yielded a rich trove of representations, created both by natives to the region and visitors, which are the subject of this lushly illustrated book. Author Daniela Bleichmar shows that these images were not only works of art but also instruments for the production of knowledge, with scientific, social, and political repercussions. Early depictions of Latin American nature introduced European audiences to native medicines and religious practices. By the 17th century, revelatory accounts of tobacco, chocolate, and cochineal reshaped science, trade, and empire around the globe. In the 18th and 19th centuries, collections and scientific expeditions produced both patriotic and imperial visions of Latin America. Through an interdisciplinary examination of more than 150 maps, illustrated manuscripts, still lifes, and landscape paintings spanning four hundred years, Visual Voyages establishes Latin America as a critical site for scientific and artistic exploration, affirming that region's transformation and the transformation of Europe as vitally connected histories.
Visions of Savage Paradise
Author: Rebecca Parker BrienenPublisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9053569472
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Visions of Savage Paradise is the first major book-length study of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published in nearly seventy years. Eckhout, who was court painter to the colonial governor of Dutch Brazil, created life-size paintings of Amerindians, Africans, and Brazilians of mixed race in support of the governor’s project to document the people and natural history of the colony. In this study, Rebecca Parker Brienen provides a detailed analysis of Eckhout’s works, framing them with discussions of both their colonial context and contemporary artistic practices in the Dutch republic.
The Kongo Kingdom
Author: Koen BostoenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108474187
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A unique and forward-thinking book that sheds new light on the origins, dynamics, and cosmopolitan culture of the Kongo Kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective.
The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800
Author: Pieter C. EmmerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This pioneering history of the Dutch Empire provides a new comprehensive overview of Dutch colonial expansion from a comparative and global perspective. It also offers a fascinating window into the early modern societies of Asia, Africa and the Americas through their interactions.