Empires of vision : a reader / Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jay, Martin, 1944-

Ramaswamy, Sumathi.

Series:

Objects/histories.

Objects/histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism.

Postcolonialism.

Visual anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (686 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Combining visual culture and postcolonial studies, this reader shows that an appreciation of the role of visual experience is necessary for understanding how colonialism worked and how colonized subjects spoke to imperial rulers.

Contents:

The walls of images / Serge Gruzinski

Painting as exploration : visualizing nature in eighteenth-century colonial science / Daniela Bleichmar

Indian yellow : making and breaking the imperial palette / Jordanna Bailkin

Colonial panaromania / Roger Benjamin

Objects of knowledge : oceanic artifacts in European engravings / Nicholas Thomas

Excess in the city? Consumption of imported prints in colonial Calcutta, c. 1780-c. 1795 / Natasha Eaton

Advertising and the optics of colonial power at the fin de siècle / David Ciarlo

Mapping plus ultra : cartography, space, and Hispanic modernity / Ricardo Padrcentn

Mapping an exotic world : the global project of Dutch cartography, circa 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt

Visual regimes of colonization : European and Aboriginal seeing in Australia / Terry Smith

The photography complex : exposing Boxer-era China (1900-1901), making civilization / James L. Hevia

Colonial theaters of proof : representation and laughter in the 1930s Rockefeller Foundation hygiene cinema in Java / Eric A. Stein

Colonialism and the built space of cinema / Brian Larkin

Speaking back to Orientalist discourse / Zeynep Çelik

Maps, mother/goddesses, and martyrdom in modern India / Sumathi Ramaswamy

Notes from the surface of the image : photography, postolonialism, and vernacular modernism / Christopher Pinney

"I am rendered speechless by your idea of beauty" : the picturesque in history and art in the postcolony / Krista A. Thompson

Fanon, Algeria, and the cinema : the politics of identification / Robert Stam

Creole Europe : the reflection of a reflection / Christopher Pinney

Picasso, Africa, and the schemata of difference / Simon Gikandi

Double Dutch and the culture game / Olu Oguibe.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822354482

0822354489

9780822378976

0822378973

OCLC:

1143645649