Namban Art in Viceregal Mexico by Rodrigo Rivero Lake - 2006

Estilo Mexico Editores/Turner, 2005 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 327 pages with 193 colour illustrations; 25 x 32.3 cm ; 2.29 Kg; May show signs of shelf wear.; "Namban" is one of the first known Eastern terms for Westernization, and it describes a century of Japanese trade with Europe in the 1500s and 1600s, trade that influenced Japanese society and art a great deal until the nation, in response, sealed its borders. Japanese art showing Namban influence is well known; here the antiquarian and historian Rodrigo Rivero Lake uses the term to identify Japanese influence in not just Western art of the same era, but New World, Mexican art. Lake sketches the shared history of Asia and Viceregal Mexico (then a European colony), which face one another across the Pacific. He follows the travels of the Galeons of Manila and Nao of China from Asia to Acapulco, and the Japanese schools of painting and artistic techniques introduced in the process. Every… Read More

Artes Gráficas Palermo Madrid, 2005. Book. Fine Condition. Cloth. First Edition. 327 pages with 193 illustrations in color. Introduction by Rodrigo Rivero Lake. Comparative Chronology. Bibliography..