Art and the British Empire
2007
709.41 A784 2007
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Title
Art and the British Empire
Published
Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
Description
xx, 442 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
709.41 A784 2007
System Control No.
(OCoLC)70765016
Note
Essays developed from papers presented at a conference held at Tate Britain in 2001.
This volume is dedicated to the problematic relationship between art and the British Empire from the 16th century to decolonization in the 20th century. It examines a wide range of visual production, including book illustration, portraiture, monumental sculpture, genre and history painting, visual satire, and more.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-429) and index.
Contents: The expanded field of the picturesque : contested identities and empire in Sydney-Cove 1794 / Ian McLean -- The picturesque and the Palawa : John Glover's Mount Wellington and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point / David Hansen -- John Septimus Roe and the art of navigation, c. 1815-30 / Luciana Martins and Felix Driver -- Colonial illusions : Australasian trompe l'œil drawings / Roger Blackley -- Ideas of "home" in South African landscape : paintings by Thomas Bowler and Thomas Baines / Michael Godby -- Scalping : social rites in Westminster Abbey / Douglas Fordham -- "Conquest, usurpation, wealth, luxury, famine" : Mortimer's banditti and the anxieties of empire / David H. Solkin -- Ships of the "line" : marine paintings at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1784 / Eleanor Hughes -- Uranian imperialism : boys and empire in Edwardian England / Michael Hatt -- Homo-exoticism : John Minton in London and Jamaica, 1950-51 / Simon Faulkner -- Critical cosmopolitanism : gifting and collecting art at Lucknow, 1775-97 / Natasha Eaton -- Storm in a teacup? Visualising tea consumption in the British Empire / Romita Ray -- The politics of portraiture behind the veil / Mary Roberts -- A veil of truth and the details of empire : John Frederick Lewis's The reception of 1873 / Emily M. Weeks -- Imperial masculinity, mimicry, and the new woman in Rhodes of Africa / Julie F. Codell -- Savage marks : engraving and empire in Thomas Harriot's Briefe and true report / Michael Gaudio -- Always there : aboriginal people and the consolation of miniature portraiture in British North America / Kristina Huneault -- Fractured families : John Davis's photo-portraits of Robert Louis Stevenson and "family" in Samoa / Leonard Bell -- Gentleman at leisure : riding breeches in the photographic portrait images of black South African men / Sandra Klopper -- "A paralysis of perspective" : image and text in the creation of an African chief / Jeff Guy.
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This volume is dedicated to the problematic relationship between art and the British Empire from the 16th century to decolonization in the 20th century. It examines a wide range of visual production, including book illustration, portraiture, monumental sculpture, genre and history painting, visual satire, and more.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-429) and index.
Contents: The expanded field of the picturesque : contested identities and empire in Sydney-Cove 1794 / Ian McLean -- The picturesque and the Palawa : John Glover's Mount Wellington and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point / David Hansen -- John Septimus Roe and the art of navigation, c. 1815-30 / Luciana Martins and Felix Driver -- Colonial illusions : Australasian trompe l'œil drawings / Roger Blackley -- Ideas of "home" in South African landscape : paintings by Thomas Bowler and Thomas Baines / Michael Godby -- Scalping : social rites in Westminster Abbey / Douglas Fordham -- "Conquest, usurpation, wealth, luxury, famine" : Mortimer's banditti and the anxieties of empire / David H. Solkin -- Ships of the "line" : marine paintings at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1784 / Eleanor Hughes -- Uranian imperialism : boys and empire in Edwardian England / Michael Hatt -- Homo-exoticism : John Minton in London and Jamaica, 1950-51 / Simon Faulkner -- Critical cosmopolitanism : gifting and collecting art at Lucknow, 1775-97 / Natasha Eaton -- Storm in a teacup? Visualising tea consumption in the British Empire / Romita Ray -- The politics of portraiture behind the veil / Mary Roberts -- A veil of truth and the details of empire : John Frederick Lewis's The reception of 1873 / Emily M. Weeks -- Imperial masculinity, mimicry, and the new woman in Rhodes of Africa / Julie F. Codell -- Savage marks : engraving and empire in Thomas Harriot's Briefe and true report / Michael Gaudio -- Always there : aboriginal people and the consolation of miniature portraiture in British North America / Kristina Huneault -- Fractured families : John Davis's photo-portraits of Robert Louis Stevenson and "family" in Samoa / Leonard Bell -- Gentleman at leisure : riding breeches in the photographic portrait images of black South African men / Sandra Klopper -- "A paralysis of perspective" : image and text in the creation of an African chief / Jeff Guy.
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