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BUCHER, BERNADETTE. Icon and Conquest: A Structural Analysis of the Illustrations of De Bry's GREAT VOYAGES. Translated Bb Basia Miller Gulati.
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. University of Chicago Press. 1981. (ISBN: 0226078329) . 220 pp. 30 illustrations. 8vo, quality paperback. A very good, clean copy. Translation of, La Sauvage aux seins pendants. (Chicago Originals Paperback Series) ICON AND CONQUEST is a study of the way Europeans portrayed the New World and its inhabitants at a critical early moment in the process of discovery and colonization. Specifically, the book is structural analysis of a number of the engravings illustrating a monumental series of narratives, the GRAND VOYAGES. These volumes were published between 1590 and 1634 by the de Brys, Protestant Flemish engravers and bookmakers in religious exile in Germany. Anthropologist Bernadette Bucher shows in her selection of images the design of a nonverbal mythology tacitly wrought by the Europeans to solve the contradictions posed by the conquest of the Americas. She shows indeed that the same unconscious processes described by Lévi-Strauss as "pensée sauvage" in so-called primitive myths and rituals are also found to be at work in the iconography of the pioneers of modern capitalism.The text is illustrated with reproductions of 28 of the de Brys' engravings.
Offered for US$ 10.00 by: Wiseman Books - Book number: 5445a
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