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Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500-1800

Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500-1800

by Anna Jackson (Editor), Amin Jaffer (Editor)

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    Hardcover 2004

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Synopsis

Vasco da Gama set sail in 1497 on a quest for highly prized spices from the East. His discovery of the sea route to India established, for the first time, direct contact between Europe and East Asia, ushering in a period of rich commercial and artistic exchange. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the V&A in Autumn 2004 (23 September-5 December 2004), this sumptuously illustrated volume traces the links between these two cultures over three centuries and explores their ongoing fascination with each other - a fascination that persists to this day. The book is divided into three sections: Discoveries is about exploration from East to West and from West to East; Encounters deals with relationships - diplomatic, missionary and personal - highlighting some of the colourful characters that inhabited this period of history; while Exchanges focuses on trade, particularly in luxury goods, which gave rise to a cross-fertilisation of styles and tastes. This resulted in some truly remarkable works of art, some of which are illustrated here for the first time.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 400
 Publisher: V & A Publications
Published: 17 Sep 2004
ISBN 10: 1851774327
ISBN 13: 9781851774326

Author Bio
Anna Jackson is Deputy Keeper in the V&A's Asian Department. Her research interests include the cultural relationship between East Asia and the West in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. She is the author of Japanese Country Textiles (V&A, 1997), Japanese Textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A, 2000) and The V&A Guide to Period Styles: 400 years of British Art and Design (V&A, 2002) and a contributor to others including Art Deco 1910-1939 (V&A, 2003). Amin Jaffer is a Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is an expert on furniture in early colonial India and is a regular lecturer and contributor to periodicals on the subject of furniture and interiors in early modern India. He is the author of Furniture from British India and Ceylon (V&A, 2001) and Luxury Goods from India: the Art of the Indian Cabinet Maker (V&A, 2002).