Picturing Imperial Power – Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth–Century British Painting
Autor Beth Fowkes Tobinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 apr 2024
Informed by the varied perspectives of postcolonial theory, Tobin explores through close readings of colonial artwork the dynamic middle ground in which cultures meet. Linking specific colonial sites with larger patterns of imperial practice and policy, she examines paintings by William Hogarth, Benjamin West, Gilbert Stuart, Arthur William Devis, and Agostino Brunias, among others. These works include portraits of colonial officials, conversation pieces of British families and their servants, portraits of Native Americans and Anglo-Indians, and botanical illustrations produced by Calcutta artists for officials of the British Botanic Gardens. In addition to examining the strategies that colonizers employed to dominate and define their subjects, Tobin uncovers the tactics of negotiation, accommodation, and resistance that make up the colonized's response to imperial authority. By focusing on the paintings' cultural and political engagement with imperialism, she accounts for their ideological power and visual effect while arguing for their significance as agents in the colonial project.
Pointing to the complexity, variety, and contradiction within colonial art, "Picturing Imperial Power" contributes to an understanding of colonialism as a collection of social, economic, political, and epistemological practices that were not monolithic and inevitable, but contradictory and contingent on various historical forces. It will interest students and scholars of colonialism, imperial history, postcolonial history, art history and theory, and cultural studies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822323389
ISBN-10: 0822323389
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 42 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 150 x 250 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 0822323389
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 42 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 150 x 250 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Cuprins
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Toward a Cultural History of Colonialism 1
Bringing the Empire Home: The Black Servant in Domestic Portraiture 27
Native Land and Foreign Desires: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians 56
Cultural Cross-Dressing in British America: Portraits of British Officers and Mohawk Warriors 81
Accomodating India: Domestic Arrangements in Anglo-Indian Family Portraiture 110
Taxonomy and Agency in Brunias's West Indian Paintings 139
Imperial Designs: Botanical Illustration and the British Botanic Empire 174
The Imperial Politics of the Local and the Universal 202
Notes 227
Selected Bibliography 279
Index 301
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Toward a Cultural History of Colonialism 1
Bringing the Empire Home: The Black Servant in Domestic Portraiture 27
Native Land and Foreign Desires: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians 56
Cultural Cross-Dressing in British America: Portraits of British Officers and Mohawk Warriors 81
Accomodating India: Domestic Arrangements in Anglo-Indian Family Portraiture 110
Taxonomy and Agency in Brunias's West Indian Paintings 139
Imperial Designs: Botanical Illustration and the British Botanic Empire 174
The Imperial Politics of the Local and the Universal 202
Notes 227
Selected Bibliography 279
Index 301
Recenzii
Picturing imperial power offers quite wonderful readings of various visual cultural productions, illustrating beautifully the variety and complexity of British colonialism. A valuable and excellent book. Inderpal Grewal, author of Home and harem: nation, gender, empire and the cultures of travel
"Tobin combines an exacting and often lyrical evocation of visual effects in the paintings she considers with the explication of a remarkable range of historical occasions, situations and transitions. Through her patient accounting of individual images, she opens up wise vistas on the operations of British colonialism while still rendering those operations with dimensionality and great nuance. Jill Campbell, author of Natures masques: gender and identity in Fieldings plays and novels
"Picturing imperial power offers quite wonderful readings of various visual cultural productions, illustrating beautifully the variety and complexity of British colonialism. A valuable and excellent book." Inderpal Grewal, author of Home and harem: nation, gender, empire and the cultures of travel "Tobin combines an exacting and often lyrical evocation of visual effects in the paintings she considers with the explication of a remarkable range of historical occasions, situations and transitions. Through her patient accounting of individual images, she opens up wise vistas on the operations of British colonialism while still rendering those operations with dimensionality and great nuance." Jill Campbell, author of Nature's masques: gender and identity in Fielding's plays and novels
"Tobin combines an exacting and often lyrical evocation of visual effects in the paintings she considers with the explication of a remarkable range of historical occasions, situations and transitions. Through her patient accounting of individual images, she opens up wise vistas on the operations of British colonialism while still rendering those operations with dimensionality and great nuance. Jill Campbell, author of Natures masques: gender and identity in Fieldings plays and novels
"Picturing imperial power offers quite wonderful readings of various visual cultural productions, illustrating beautifully the variety and complexity of British colonialism. A valuable and excellent book." Inderpal Grewal, author of Home and harem: nation, gender, empire and the cultures of travel "Tobin combines an exacting and often lyrical evocation of visual effects in the paintings she considers with the explication of a remarkable range of historical occasions, situations and transitions. Through her patient accounting of individual images, she opens up wise vistas on the operations of British colonialism while still rendering those operations with dimensionality and great nuance." Jill Campbell, author of Nature's masques: gender and identity in Fielding's plays and novels
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"Tobin combines an exacting and often lyrical evocation of visual effects in the paintings she considers with the explication of a remarkable range of historical occasions, situations, and transitions. Through her patient accounting of individual images, she opens up wide vistas on the operations of British colonialism while still rendering those operations with dimensionality and great nuance."--Jill Campbell, author o"f Nature's Masques: Gender and Identity in Fielding's Plays and Novels"
Descriere
Examines the intersection of visual culture and political power in late-eighteenth-century British painting. Focusing on paintings from British America, the West Indies, and India, Beth Fowkes Tobin investigates the role of art in creating and maintaining imperial ideologies and practices - as well as resisting and complicating them