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