Prints as agents of global exchange : 1500-1800 /
Heather Madar.
- 1 online resource (324 pages).
- Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 Ser. .
Description based upon print version of record. Figure 6 Detail from the birth of Timur, from an imperial copy of Abul Fazl's Akbarnama, (Vol. I). South Asia, Mughal, c. 1602. Painting ascribed to Surdas Gujarati. Opaque watercolors with gold on paper. (c) The British Library Board (Or.12988.f.34v).
Includes bibliographies and index.
The significance of the media and communications revolution occasioned by printmaking was profound. Less a part of the standard narrative of printmaking's significance is recognition of the frequency with which the widespread dissemination of printed works also occurred beyond the borders of Europe and consideration of the impact of this broader movement of printed objects. Within a decade of the invention of the printing press, European prints began to move globally. Over the course of the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, numerous prints produced in Europe traveled to areas as varied as Turkey, India, Persia, Ethiopia, China, Japan and the Americas, where they were taken by missionaries, artists, travelers, merchants and diplomats. This collection of essays explores the transmission of knowledge, both written and visual, between Europe and the rest of the world by means of prints in the early modern period.