This companion analyzes interactions between the arts and global imperial relationships from around 1800 through the 20th century.
By excavating layers and identifying legacies, the essays reveal inherent fractures in colonial perspectives. Tremendous multi-directional imperialisms and inter-imperial dialogues characterize the period, as do protests and anticolonial activity. How does the materializing of empire expose its logics of cultural superiority and its fault lines and instabilities? The essays in this volume explore how the arts, visual, and material culture, however subtly, tested empire’s hegemonic limits, whether by exposing fragilities, unmasking ruptures, or through intentional subversions. While this volume’s essays at times trace evidence of strident anticolonial voices, most consistently they show visual, textual, material, and performative practices pointing to the instability of imperial ambition and activity. The theme of geological stratification shapes the essay structure as authors consider the modes of artistic interaction in the context of imperialism as well as the legacies of empire.
The book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers, and professors and may be used in classes focused on art history, imperialism, and colonialism.
This companion analyzes interactions between the arts and global imperial relationships from around 1800 through the 20th century.
Introduction: Instability and Resistance: Collaging Empire and its
Challenges Part I: What Breaks Down the Rock: Fissures and Eruptions
1. The
Art of Returning Home: Lars Hættas Miniature Duodji
2. Art and Identity
Caught Between Two Powers: How Dantes Image Became a Symbol of Colonial
Resistance in Malta
3. The Uncertainties of Empire: Horace Vernet in Algeria,
1833
4. Alphonse de Lamartine, the Haitian Revolution and Imperialism: The
Contingencies of Frances Empire in Lamartines Toussaint Louverture
5.
Pablita Velarde: Extractive Economies of Empire and Indigenous Resistance
6.
Prefabricated Promises: The Te Pahi House
7. The Art of Empire: Amrita
Sher-Gils Two Girls (1939) Part II: The Detritus: Layers of Empire
8. The
Fabric of Empires: Delacroix, Trade, and the Women of Algiers
9. Ivan
Aivazovskys Imperial Sublime: The Politics and Aesthetics of Romantic
Landscape Painting in the Age of Empire
10. Race and the Problem of
Impressionist Skin
11. Unity in Diversity: The Austro-Hungarian Art and
Art-Industry Exhibition 1899-1900 in St. Petersburg
12. Her Works: Chinese
Embroidery and Australian Art Needlework at the First Australian Exhibition
of Womens Work in 1907
13. New Displays in the Old Capital: The Architecture
of Bursa Expositions in the Turn-of-the-Century Ottoman Empire Part III:
Human Impact on Sediment: Afterimages
14. Whats In a Photo? Frederick
Douglass and Ram Singh II, Maharaj of Jaipur. Or: Lateral Art History and The
Postindian Trickster, An Experiment in Method
15. Backdrops as Middle Ground:
Photographic Portraiture and the Sites of Native American Resistance
16.
Public Shared Places and Private Absent Divides. Identity and Space of
Colonial Urbanism Under Portuguese, French, and Danish Rules: Diu,
Pondicherry and Tranquebar
17. Art, Agriculture and Colonialism Revisiting
19th-Century Danish Landscape Painting in Museums
18. Visualizing Colonial
Dispossession: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Imperial Impressionism, and the Art of
Empire
19. Drawing Made Easy: Akinla Laekan and Colonial Art Education in
Nigeria
20. Cultural Erasure: How Western Art Institutions Perpetuate Russian
Imperialism
21. Living Cultural Legacies: North American Indigenous Arts of
the Northeast under Imperial Rule
Emily C. Burns is Director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West and Associate Professor of Art History at University of Oklahoma.
Alice M. Rudy Price is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture and Thomas Jefferson University, College of Architecture and the Built Environment.
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