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

Author(s): Jay, Martin | Ramaswamy, Sumathi

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Main Title
Empires of vision : a reader
Author(s)
Ramaswamy, Sumathi
Jay, Martin
Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Collation
xvi, 669 p. : ill.
24 cm.
Series Title
Objects/histories
ISBN
9780822354482
Dewey Class
325.3
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 Padrón -- 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, postcolonialism, 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.
Language
English
Subject
Imperialism.
Postcolonialism.
BRN
6816

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