Art and the British Empire

By: Tim Barringer (Editor), Geoff Quilley (Editor), Douglas Fordham (Editor), Chantal Hamil

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Paperback | 1 September 2009

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This pioneering study argues that the concept of 'empire' belongs at the centre, rather than in the margins, of British art history. Recent scholarship in history, anthropology, literature and post-colonial studies has superseded traditional definitions of empire as a monolithic political and economic project. Emerging across the humanities is the idea of empire as a complex and contested process, mediated materially and imaginatively by multifarious forms of culture. The twenty essays in "Art and the British Empire" offer compelling methodological solutions to this ambiguity, while engaging in subtle visual analysis of a previously neglected body of work. Authors from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the USA and the UK examine a wide range of visual production, including book illustration, portraiture, monumental sculpture, genre and history painting, visual satire, marine and landscape painting, photography and film. Together these essays propose a major shift in the historiography of British art and a blueprint for further research.

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"The book is produced to a very high standard: quality paper, spacious lay-out, 127 black and white and 19 beautifully reproduced illustrations. It is a pleasure to hold and behold." --Terry Barringer, African Research & Documentation, No. 103 (2007)

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Settlers and travellers:
The expanded field of the picturesque: Contested identities and empire in Sydney Cove 1794
The picturesque and the Palawa: John GloverâÇÖs Mount Wellington and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point
John Septimus Roe and the art of navigation, c. 1815-1830
Colonial illusions: Australasian trompe-lâÇÖoeil drawings
Ideas of âÇ HomeâÇÖ in South African landscape paintings
Scalping: Social rites in Westminster Abbey
âÇ£Conquest, usurpation, wealth, luxury, famineâÇ : MortimerâÇÖs Banditti and the anxieties of empire
Ships of the line: The Royal Academy exhibition of 1784
Uranian imperialism: Boys and empire in Edwardian England
Homo-exoticism: John Minton in London and Jamaica, 1950--1
Roles and reversals:
Critical cosmopolitanism: Gifting and collecting Art at Lucknow, 1775-1797
Storm in a teacup? Visualizing tea consumption in the British empire
The politics of portraiture behind the veil
A veil of truth and the details of empire: John Frederick LewisâÇÖs The Reception
Imperial masculinity, mimicry, and the new woman in Rhodes of Africa
Subject formation:
Savage marks: Engraving and empire in Thomas HarriotâÇÖs Briefe and True Report
Always there: Aboriginal people and the consolation of miniature portraiture in British North America
Fractured families: John DavisâÇÖs photo-portraits of Robert Louis Stephenson and family in Samoa
Gentlemen at leisure: Riding breeches in the photographic portrait images of Black South African men
âÇ A paralysis of perspectiveâÇÖ: Image and text in the creation of an African chief
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