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Visualizing empire : Africa, Europe and the politics of representation / edited by Rebecca Peabody, Steven Nelson, and Dominic Thomas.

Van Pelt Library JV1811 .V57 2021
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Getty Research Institute, issuing body.
McWilliams-Tattersall Fund.
Peabody, Rebecca, editor.
Nelson, Steven, 1962- editor.
Thomas, Dominic Richard David, editor.
Series:
Issues & debates
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Imperialism in popular culture--France.
Imperialism in popular culture.
Propaganda, French--History--19th century.
Propaganda, French.
Propaganda, French--History--20th century.
French colonies.
ACHAC Collection (Getty Research Institute).
Colonies.
History.
France--Colonies--Africa--History.
France.
France--Colonies--History.
Africa.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
vii, 191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm.
Place of Publication:
Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2021]
Summary:
"The essays in this book analyze aspects of colonialism through investigations into the art, popular literature, material culture, film, and exhibitions that represented, celebrated, or were created for France's colonies across the seas. These studies draw from documents and media-photographs, albums, postcards, maps, posters, advertisements, and children's games-related to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century French Empire"-- Provided by publisher.
"By the end of World War I, having fortified its colonial holdings in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Asia, France had expanded its dominion to the four corners of the earth. This volume examines how the French Empire encouraged a vibrant and engaging material culture--from commercial as well as political sources--to normalize its colonial project and racialized ideas of life in the empire. Drawing from documents and media held in the Getty Research Institute's ACHAC collections, Visualizing Empire analyzes aspects of colonialism manifest in the art, popular literature, games, maps, films, and exhibitions that represented, celebrated, or were created for France's colonies across the seas."--back cover.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: French Colonial Collections at the Getty Research Institute / Frances Terpak
Documenting (Post)Colonial Visual Histories: The Global Impact of the ACHAC Research Group / Dominic Thomas
Decolonizing the ACHAC Collection / Patricia A. Morton
Fragments of Empire: Ephemera, Toys, and the Dynamics of Colonial Memory / Charles Forsdick
Intersecting Legacies of bandes dessinees and Belgian Colonial Instruction: Les aventures de Mbumbulu in Nos images (1948
55) / Peter J. Bloom
French Colonialism: The Rules of the Game / Dominic Thomas
Envisioning the Desert: The Sahara and French Colonial Visual Culture / Michelle H. Craig
Representations of the tirailleur senegalais and World War I / David Murphy
On Posters and Postures: Colonial Enlistment Posters and the Nationalist Imagination in France / Lauren Taylor
La France et ses colonies: Mapping, Representing, and Visualizing Empire / Steven Nelson.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the McWilliams-Tattersall Fund.
Contains:
Container of: Terpak, Frances, 1948- French colonial collections at the Getty Research Institute.
Other Format:
Online version: Visualizing empire
ISBN:
9781606066683
1606066684
OCLC:
1149280289
Publisher Number:
99986445310

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