What Is a Trade?: Donald Fels and Signboard Painters of South India

by Greg Bell, Donald Fels, Samuel K. Parker

What Is a Trade? Donald Fels and Signboard Painters of South India presents sixteen large-scale paintings that explore trade and globalization in India. Fels' conceptual starting point for this exhibition was Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's 1498 voyage to Malabar, India, in search of a direct sea route for the spice trade. What is a Trade? explores the historic and modern-day legacy of that expedition more than 500 years later.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0924335262
• ISBN13: 9780924335266
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.8" x 8.1"