The Routledge Companion to Art and the Formation of Empire / edited by Emily C. Burns and Alice M. Rudy Price.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burns, Emily C., editor.

Price, Alice M. Rudy, editor.

Series:

Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society--History--19th century.

Art and society.

Art and society--History--20th century.

Imperialism in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (620 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

This companion comprises essays that analyze interactions between art and global imperial relationships from 1800 to World War II.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction: Solidifying as Rock: Enmeshed Layers of Empire

Part I: Sediment: The Dynamic Elements of Place

1 Colonial Complicities Beyond the Empire: Czechoslovakia in Between Worlds and World's Fairs

2 "The Kingdom Grown Out of a Little Boy's Garden": Dole Pineapples and Hawaiian Occupation in U.S. Art and Visual Culture

3 Imperialism for the Million: Mass-Market Glasshouses and the Botanical Arts of Empire

4 Meditating on Aivazovsky's Black Sea: Representing Russian Imperial Expansion

5 Beyond European Palettes: The Overlooked Contributions of Indigenized Artists in the Historiography of Painting in Mexico

6 Beyond the Modernist Canon of Involuntary Aesthetic Colonization: Aina Onabolu's Mimicry as Rejection of Colonial Anti-Modernity, 1900-1930

7 Rambles in Natchez: John James Audubon and Colonial Aesthetics on the Mississippi Frontier (1820-1850)

Part II: What Moves the Sediment: Exchange and Conflict

8 The Empire Looks Back: Derivativeness in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Art

9 "Southern Fragrance" of the Japanese Empire: Visualizing Botany in Colonial Taiwan

10 How to Interpret John B. Flannagan Through Empire

11 Face-Off: A Russian Prince at the Courts of India

12 Orientalism, Arts, and Scottish Identity: David Roberts (1796-1864) and David Wilkie (1785-1841) in the Ottoman Levant

13 Mapping the British Railways in Western Anatolia: From a Speculative to an Imperial Vision

14 Manufacturing Empire: The Visual and Material Culture of Chicago's Marquette Building

15 The Italian Fascist Vision for the "World of Tomorrow" at the New York 1939 World's Fair

Part III: What Solidifies the Sediment into Rock: Forces of Homogenization (or Consolidation).

16 Maternal Orientalism: Women's Work and the Photographs of Jessie Tarbox Beals at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition

17 'Self-colonization' as a Cultural Strategy: Konstantin Korovin's Image of Russian Northern Peripheries

18 Adapting Empire for the Buying Public: The Algerian Conquest and a Printed Adaptation of Gros's Bonaparte Visiting the Plaguehouse at Jaffa

19 Surveying for Empire: Arthur Schott's Boundary Pictures and the Slavery Extension Controversy

20 Whose American South? Winslow Homer and The Cuban Question

21 Hegemony, Hierarchy, and Struggle in Korean Colonial Art: The Activities and Artworks of Shinichi Yamada

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9781003414742

1003414745

9781040343203

1040343201