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| ISBN13: | 9780822354369 |
| ISBN10: | 0822354365 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 688 pages |
| Size: | 229x152 mm |
| Weight: | 1166 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 58 photographs |
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Empires of Vision
A Reader
Series:
Objects/Histories;
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date of Publication: 14 March 2014
Number of Volumes: Cloth over boards
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Short description:
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.
Long description:
Empires of Vision brings together pieces by some of the most influential scholars working at the intersection of visual culture studies and the history of European imperialism. The essays and excerpts focus on the paintings, maps, geographical surveys, postcards, photographs, and other media that comprise the visual milieu of colonization, struggles for decolonization, and the lingering effects of empire. Taken together, they demonstrate that an appreciation of the role of visual experience is necessary for understanding the functioning of hegemonic imperial power and the ways that the colonized subjects spoke, and looked, back at their imperial rulers. Empires of Vision also makes a vital point about the complexity of image culture in the modern world: We must comprehend how regimes of visuality emerged globally, not only in the metropole but also in relation to the putative margins of a world that increasingly came to question the very distinction between center and periphery.
Contributors. Jordanna Bailkin, Roger Benjamin, Daniela Bleichmar, Zeynep Çelik, David Ciarlo, Natasha Eaton, Simon Gikandi, Serge Gruzinski, James L. Hevia, Martin Jay, Brian Larkin, Olu Oguibe, Ricardo Padrón, Christopher Pinney, Sumathi Ramaswamy, Benjamin Schmidt, Terry Smith, Robert Stam, Eric A. Stein, Nicholas Thomas, Krista A. Thompson
"Empires of Vision is one of those books that had to be written, and that required, not a single author, but an interdisciplinary and cosmopolitan collective of scholarly learning and critical passion. In a brilliant series of interventions, the authors gathered here survey the full range of ways in which imperialism worked its black magic, not just with the standard tools of armies and military technologies, bureaucracies and gunboats, but with photographs, paintings, maps, and the whole range of visual arts and media. This is essential reading for art historians, anthropologists, and scholars of visual culture across the globe."—W. J. T. Mitchell, author of Seeing Through Race
Table of Contents:
Illustrations ix
Reprint Acknowledgments xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: The Work of Vision in the Age of European Empires / Sumathi Ramaswamy 1
Section I: The Imperial Optic
Introduction / Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy 25
Part 1: Empires of the Palette
1. The Walls of Images / Serge Gruzinski 47
2. Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science / Daniela Bleichmar 64
3. Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette / Jordanna Bailkin 91
4. Colonial Panaromania / Roger Benjamin 111
Part 2. The Mass-Printed Imperium
5. Objects of Knowledge: Oceanic Artifacts in European Engravings / Nicholas Thomas 141
6. Excess in the City? Consumption of Imported Prints in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1780?c. 1795 / Natasha Eaton 159
7. Advertising and the Optics of Colonial Power at the Fin de Si?cle / David Ciarlo 189
Part 3. Mapping, Claiming, Reclaiming
8. Mapping Plus Ultra: Cartography, Space, and Hispanic Modernity / Ricardo Padrón 211
9. Mapping an Exotic World: The Global Project of Dutch Cartography, circa 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt 246
10. Visual Regimes of Colonization: European and Aboriginal Seeing in Australia / Terry Smith 267
Part 4. The Imperial Lens
11. The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer-Era China (1900?1901), Making Civilization / James L. Hevia 283
12. Colonial Theaters of Proof: Representation and Laughter in the 1930s Rockefeller Foundation Hygeine Cinema in Java / Eric A. Stein 315
13. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema / Brian Larkin 346
Section II. Postcolonial Looking
Introduction / Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy 377
Part 5. Subaltern Seeing: An Overlap of Complexities
14. Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse / Zeynep Çelik 395
15. Maps, Mother/Goddesses, and Martyrdom in Modern India / Sumathi Ramaswamy 415
16. Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism / Christopher Pinney 450
17. "I Am Rendered Speechless by Your Idea of Beauty": The Picturesque in History and Art in the Postcolony / Krista A. Thompson 471
18. Fanon, Algeria, and the Cinema: The Politics of Identification / Robert Stam 503
Part 6. Regarding and Reconstituting Europe
19. Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection / Christopher Pinney 539
20. Picasso, Africa, and the Schemata of Difference / Simon Gikandi 566
21. Double Dutch and the Culture Game / Olu Oguibe 594
Conclusion. A Parting Glance: Empire and Visuality / Martin Jay 609
Contributors 621
Index 629
Reprint Acknowledgments xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: The Work of Vision in the Age of European Empires / Sumathi Ramaswamy 1
Section I: The Imperial Optic
Introduction / Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy 25
Part 1: Empires of the Palette
1. The Walls of Images / Serge Gruzinski 47
2. Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science / Daniela Bleichmar 64
3. Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette / Jordanna Bailkin 91
4. Colonial Panaromania / Roger Benjamin 111
Part 2. The Mass-Printed Imperium
5. Objects of Knowledge: Oceanic Artifacts in European Engravings / Nicholas Thomas 141
6. Excess in the City? Consumption of Imported Prints in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1780?c. 1795 / Natasha Eaton 159
7. Advertising and the Optics of Colonial Power at the Fin de Si?cle / David Ciarlo 189
Part 3. Mapping, Claiming, Reclaiming
8. Mapping Plus Ultra: Cartography, Space, and Hispanic Modernity / Ricardo Padrón 211
9. Mapping an Exotic World: The Global Project of Dutch Cartography, circa 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt 246
10. Visual Regimes of Colonization: European and Aboriginal Seeing in Australia / Terry Smith 267
Part 4. The Imperial Lens
11. The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer-Era China (1900?1901), Making Civilization / James L. Hevia 283
12. Colonial Theaters of Proof: Representation and Laughter in the 1930s Rockefeller Foundation Hygeine Cinema in Java / Eric A. Stein 315
13. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema / Brian Larkin 346
Section II. Postcolonial Looking
Introduction / Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy 377
Part 5. Subaltern Seeing: An Overlap of Complexities
14. Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse / Zeynep Çelik 395
15. Maps, Mother/Goddesses, and Martyrdom in Modern India / Sumathi Ramaswamy 415
16. Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism / Christopher Pinney 450
17. "I Am Rendered Speechless by Your Idea of Beauty": The Picturesque in History and Art in the Postcolony / Krista A. Thompson 471
18. Fanon, Algeria, and the Cinema: The Politics of Identification / Robert Stam 503
Part 6. Regarding and Reconstituting Europe
19. Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection / Christopher Pinney 539
20. Picasso, Africa, and the Schemata of Difference / Simon Gikandi 566
21. Double Dutch and the Culture Game / Olu Oguibe 594
Conclusion. A Parting Glance: Empire and Visuality / Martin Jay 609
Contributors 621
Index 629
