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TIME EUROPE has this story at http://www.time.com/time/europe/html/041018/art.html which talks about this "riveting exhibition recalls an earlier era when Europe and Asia fascinated and enriched each other". Quote: Today, traders from Asia and Europe haggle over handbags and cell phones, airplanes and nuclear-reactor construction deals. Four hundred years ago, the objects of desire were a little different, but the relationship between East and West was already underpinned by an intoxicating sense of commercial potential. An enormous gold-leaf, six-panel screen currently on display at London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) shows a Portuguese trading ship arriving amid great anticipation at a lively 17th century Japanese port. The rest of the story unfolds on the screen: the captain marches ashore under a ceremonial parasol, Portuguese dignitaries pay court to the feudal lord, and Western businessmen offer their wares to intrigued customers, tantalizing them with everything from books to tiger skins. Even then � centuries before Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schr�der landed in Asia with their retinues of corporate executives � East and West shared common ground, each equally fascinated by the other. Endquote There's a reference to Goa too, as can be expected given that this small region was a meeting ground of cultures (even if sometimes, violently) and trade: "The converts responded with hybrid adaptations, marrying Christian symbolism with Asian traditions. Some results, as displayed at the V&A: a standing baby Jesus in ivory from Goa; a jade crucifix inlaid with teardrop- shape rubies from India..." Has any Goanetter seen this exhibition? It's currently on at London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). Comments would be appreciated. --FN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Freelance Journalist TEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks fred at bytesforall.org http://www.bytesforall.org
