Visualizing Portuguese power : the political use of images in Portugal and its overseas empire (16th-18th century) / edited by Urte Krass.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krass, Urte, editor.

Series:

Bilder Diskurs.

Bilder Diskurs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Portugal.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Zurich, [Switzerland] ; Berlin, [Germany] : diaphanes, 2017.

Summary:

Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society.Nowhere is this more evident than in the process of empire building, in which visual language has long been a highly effective means of overpowering another culture with one's own values and beliefs.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Visualizing Portuguese Power: Between Imperial Agenda and Agency of the Image. An Introduction / Urte Krass

Artistic Images and Objects as Agents of Politics and Religion: The Foundation Stone of the Convent of Saint Monica in Goa and the Processional Standard with the Miracle of the Crucified Christ / Carla Alferes Pinto

Calligraphy and Royal Symbols: An Analysis of Portuguese and Brazilian Painted Manuscripts in the 18th Century / Márcia Almada

Imperial Propaganda and the Representation of Otherness in Portugal in Early Modern Times / Maria Berbara

'Dressed Up' in 17th Century Goa / Pamila Gupta

Allegory and Narrative: Two Bengal Colchas and the Independence of Portugal / Barbara Karl

Loyalty Made Visible: Pyrotechnics and Processions for King John IV in Macao in 1642 / Urte Krass

Stones of Contention: Factions, Statues, and the Political Use of Memory in Early Modern Goa / Giuseppe Marcocci

Building the Image of the Portuguese Empire: The Power of Quadratura Painting in Colonial Brazil / Guiseppina Raggi

Book Illustrations and the Politics of Publishing: a Survey of the Illustrations for the Lisbon Editions of the Asia Portuguesa and Europa Portuguesa by Manuel de Faria e Sousa / Jeremy Roe

From Descriptive/Verbal to Pictorial Visualizations: Appropriating Nature in the Portuguese Empire in Asia (16th and 17th Centuries) / Ines G. Zupanov

Afterword: Artifacts and Their Political Meaning - Political Iconography and Globalization / Jens Baumgarten

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 15, 2017).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-03734-908-5

OCLC:

975225307