| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-278) and index. |
| Summary |
The first major book-length study of the Dutch artist Albert Eckhout examining his fascinating works of art. |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Albert Eckhout (ca. 1607-1665/6): Portrait and Still-life Painter at Johan Maurits's Brazilian Court; 2 'To Reproduce Nature Itself as Perfectly as Possible': The Brazilian Natural History Drawings of Albert Eckhout; 3 Cannibalizing America: From the Ethnographic Impulse to the Ethnographic Portrait; 4 Between the Savage and the Civilized: Eckhout's Brasilianen and Tapuyas; 5 Black, Brown, and Yellow: Eckhout's Paintings of Africans, Mestizos, and Mulattos; 6 Eckhout's Paintings: Location and Interpretation; Conclusion; Colour Plates. |
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Appendix A: Chronological Overview of Albert Eckhout's LifeAppendix B: Works of Art by Albert Eckhout; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names; General Index; List of Illustrations. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Eeckhout, Albert van der, active 1637-1664.
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Eeckhout, Albert van der, active 1637-1664. |
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Eeckhout, Albert van der, active 1637-1664 -- Travel -- Brazil.
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Travel. |
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Brazil. |
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Eeckhout, Albert van den. |
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Indians in art.
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Indians in art. |
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Brazil -- In art.
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Brazil. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Art.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brienen, Rebecca Parker. Visions of savage paradise. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2006 9053569472 (DLC) 2007451005 (OCoLC)80146095 |
| ISBN |
9781429454698 (electronic book) |
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1429454695 (electronic book) |
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1280958456 |
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9781280958458 |
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9789048505548 (electronic book) |
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9048505542 (electronic book) |
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9053569472 |
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9789053569474 |
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