Empires of Vision (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Celik, David Ciarlo, Natasha Eaton, Simon Gikandi, Serge Gruzinski, James L. Hevia, Martin Jay, Brian Larkin, Olu Oguibe, Ricardo Padron, Christopher Pinney, Sumathi Ramaswamy, Benjamin Schmidt, Terry Smith, Robert Stam, Eric A. Stein, Nicholas Thomas, Krista A. Thompson

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822378976
• Artikelnr.: 54781838

Autorenporträt

Martin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including Downcast Eyes, The Dialectical Imagination, and Marxism and Totality. Sumathi Ramaswamy is Professor of History at Duke University. She is the author of The Goddess and the Nation, also published by Duke University Press; The Lost Land of Lemuria, and Passions of the Tongue.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Siècle /
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