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

By Greg Bell, Donald Fels, Samuel K. Parker
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By Greg Bell, Donald Fels, Samuel K. Parker
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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.

In 2004 and 2005, Fels traveled to Kerala (formerly Malabar)...

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