European visions : American voices / edited by Kim Sloan.
Published / Created:
London : British Museum, c2009.
Physical Description:
viii, 142 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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Web version:
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_publications/online_research_publications/european_visions.aspx
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Papers from a conference that corresponded to the exhibition "A new world: England's first view of America", held at the British Museum from March 15 to June 17, 2007.
Contents:
Introduction / Kim Sloan -- Roanoke's Achievement / Karen Kupperman -- Economic and Cultural Contexts Introduction and Summary / Peter Mason -- Thomas Harriot's Brief and True Report: Knowledge-Making and the Roanoke Voyage / Stephen Clucas -- 'Counterfeited According to the Truth': John White, Lucas de Heere, and the Truth in Clothing / Michael Gaudio -- Truth and Artifice in the Visualization of Native Peoples: from the Time of John White to the Beginning of the 18th Century / Stephanie Pratt -- Nature and Natural History Introduction and Summary / Florike Egmond -- Elizabethan London's Naturalists and the Work of John White / Deborah Harkness -- Don't Eat, Don't Touch: Native Americans, European Newcomers and Dangerous Plants of North America / Karen Reeds -- New Visions of a New World Introduction and Summary / Kim Sloan -- Conservation of John White's Watercolours / Alice Rugheimer -- Analysis of John White's Pigments / Janet Ambers, Duncan Hook and Antony Simpson -- John White's Materials and Techniques / Timea Tallian -- 'A Kind of Gentle Painting': Limning in 16th-Century England / Katherine Coombs -- Through an Artist's Eye: Observations on Aspects of Copying in Two Groups of Work by John White, c. 1585-90 / Sally Birch -- American History Introduction and Summary / Peter C. Mancall -- Lost Colonists and Lost Tribes / Michael Leroy Oberg -- John White and British Antiquity: Savage Origins in the Context of Tudor Historiography / Sam Smiles -- Serialised Virginia: the Representational Format for Comparative Ethnology, c. 1600 / Ernst van den Boogaart -- Texts, Images and the Perception of 'Savages' in early Modern Europe: What we can Learn from White and Harriot / Joan-Pau Rubiés -- Past, Present, and Future: Exploring and Restoring Native Perspectives in the Chesapeake / Audrey Horning.
Subject Terms:
White, John, active 1585–1593 -- Congresses. | Indians in art -- Congresses. | North America -- In art -- Congresses. | America -- Discovery and exploration -- British -- Congresses.