TY - BOOK ID - 84718179 TI - Made in the Americas : the new world discovers Asia AU - Carr, Dennis Andrew AU - Bailey, Gauvin Alexander AU - Brook, Timothy AU - Codding, Mitchell AU - Corrigan, Karina AU - Pierce, Donna AU - Museum of fine arts (Boston, Mass.) PY - 2015 SN - 9780878468126 0878468129 PB - Boston, MA: Museum of fine arts, DB - UniCat KW - Exhibitions KW - Decorative arts, Early American KW - Decorative arts, Spanish colonial KW - Decorative arts KW - Asian influences KW - Decorative arts, Early American - Exhibitions KW - Decorative arts, Spanish colonial - Exhibitions KW - Decorative arts - Asian influences - United States - Exhibitions KW - Decorative arts - Asian influences - Latin America - Exhibitions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84718179 AB - "Made in the Americas reveals the overlooked history of Asia's profound influence on the arts of the colonial Americas. Beginning in the 16th century, European outposts in the New World, especially those in New Spain, became a major nexus of the Asian export trade. Craftsmen from Canada to Peru, inspired by the sophisticated designs and advanced techniques of these imported goods, combined Asian styles with local traditions to produce unparalleled furniture, silverwork, textiles, ceramics, lacquer, painting and architectural ornaments. Among the exquisite objects featured in this book, from across the hemisphere and spanning the 17th to the early 19th centuries, are folding screens made in Mexico in imitation of imported Japanese and Chinese screens; blue-and-white talavera ceramics copied from Chinese porcelains; luxuriously woven textiles, made to replicate fine silks and cottons from China and India; devotional statues that adapt Buddhist gods into Christian saints; and "japanned" furniture produced in Boston that simulates Asian lacquer finishes. The stories told by the objects gathered in Made in the Americas bring to life the rich cultural interchange and the spectacular arts of the first global age" ER -