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19 January 2010

Chapter 2. Before contact: imagined others

Self & Other: Portraits from Asia and Europe In Japan

Contents - The preparation - The concept and challenges - How the exhibition is structured - Chapter 1. Portraits of the Self - Chapter 2. Before contact: imagined others - Chapter 3. After contact: representing the other in one’s own style - Chapter 4. The modern look: adopting the other’s style - Chapter 5. Self and other in the  contemporary world

 

 

Chapter 2. Before contact: imagined others

 

 

Before large-scale contact, which began from the 16th century, images circulated in both Asia and Europe in which unknown, distant lands were represented as ‘far-off lands’ or even ‘worlds’, infested by strange human forms. Even after direct contact between Asia and Europe, these images of human beings from ‘strange lands’ survived for a long time.

  

 

	National Museum of Art		National Museum of Ethnology		Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History		Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

 

 

	AE: An image of Asia seen from Europe		EA: An image of Europe seen from Asia
		National Museum of Ethnology

 

 

AE						EA

  

 

 

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