Empires of Vision

Empires of Vision

A Reader

  • Auteur: Jay, Martin; Ramaswamy, Sumathi
  • Éditeur: Duke University Press
  • Collection: Objects/histories
  • ISBN: 9780822354369
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822378976
  • Lieu de publication:  Durham , United States
  • Année de publication électronique: 2014
  • Mois : Mars
  • Pages: 688
  • DDC: 325/.3
  • Langue: Anglais
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

  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Reprint Acknowledgments
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Work of Vision in the Age of European Empires, Sumathi Ramaswamy
  • Section I: The Imperial Optic: Introduction, Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy
    • Part 1: Empires of the Palette
      • Chapter 1. The Walls of Images, Serge Gruzinski
      • Chapter 2. Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science, Daniela Bleichmar
      • Chapter 3. Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette, Jordanna Bailkin
      • Chapter 4. Colonial Panaromania, Roger Benjamin
    • Part 2: The Mass-Printed Imperium
      • Chapter 5. Objects of Knowledge: Oceanic Artifacts in European Engravings, Nicholas Thomas
      • Chapter 6. Excess in the City? The Consumption of Imported Prints in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1780–c. 1795, Natasha Eaton
      • Chapter 7. Advertising and the Optics of Colonial Power at the Fin de Siècle, David Ciarlo
    • Part 3: Mapping, Claiming, Reclaiming
      • Chapter 8. Mapping Plus Ultra: Cartography, Space, and Hispanic Modernity, Ricardo Padrón
      • Chapter 9. Mapping an Exotic World: The Global Project of Dutch Cartography, circa 1700, Benjamin Schmidt
      • Chapter 10. Visual Regimes of Colonization: European and Aboriginal Seeing in Australia, Terry Smith
    • Part 4: The Imperial Lens
      • Chapter 11. The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer-Era China (1900–1901), Making Civilization, James L. Hevia
      • Chapter 12. Colonial Theaters of Proof: Representation and Laughter in 1930s Rockefeller Foundation Hygiene Cinema in Java, Eric A. Stein
      • Chapter 13. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema, Brian Larkin
  • Section II: Postcolonial Looking: Introduction, Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy
    • Part 5: Subaltern Seeing: An Overlap of Com
      • Chapter 14. Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse, Zeynep Çelik
      • Chapter 15. Maps, Mother/Goddesses, and Martyrdom in Modern India, Sumathi Ramaswamy
      • Chapter 16. Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism, Christopher Pinney
      • Chapter 17. “I Am Rendered Speechless by Your Idea of Beauty”: The Picturesque in History and Art in the Postcolony, Krista A. Thompson
      • Chapter 18. Fanon, Algeria, and the Cinema: The Politics of Identification, Robert Stam
    • Part 6: Regarding and Reconstituting Europe
      • Chapter 19. Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection, Christopher Pinney
      • Chapter 20. Picasso, Africa, and the Schemata of Difference, Simon Gikandi
      • Chapter 21. Double Dutch and the Culture Game, Olu Oguibe
      • Conclusion: A Parting Glance: Empire and Visuality, Martin Jay
  • Contributors
  • Index

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