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Art & Empire

Vivien Green Fryd
Art Empire Book PDF

Author : Vivien Green Fryd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015055572468

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The subject matter and iconography of much of the art in the U.S. Capitol forms a remarkably coherent program of the early course of North American empire, from discovery and settlement to the national development and westward expansion that necessitated the subjugation of the indigenous peoples. In Art and Empire, Vivien Green Fryd's revealing cultural and political interpretation of the portraits, reliefs, allegories, and historical paintings commissioned for the U.S. Capitol, the reader is given an enhanced appreciation for the racial and ethnic implications of these works. This latest contribution to the United States Capitol Historical Society's Perspectives on the Art and Architectural History of the United States Capitol series provides an affordable and accessible insight into one of our most visited, viewed, and revered national buildings. Professor Fryd demonstrates how the politics of our history is written in stone and painted on the walls of these hallowed halls.

Art of Empire

Michael Jones (Archaeologist),Susanna McFadden
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Author : Michael Jones (Archaeologist),Susanna McFadden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300169126

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Art of Empire by Michael Jones (Archaeologist),Susanna McFadden Pdf

"This publication is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)"--Page v.

Artist and Empire

Alison Smith,David Blayney Brown,Carol Jacobi
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Author : Alison Smith,David Blayney Brown,Carol Jacobi
Publisher : Tate
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 1849763437

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Artist and Empire by Alison Smith,David Blayney Brown,Carol Jacobi Pdf

Through broad groupings within thematic chapters, leading scholars focus on how particular objects tell the history of life under British rule. Paintings by well-known artists such as John Singer Sargent and Sidney Nolan are illustrated alongside Benin bronze heads and Mughal miniatures in a survey that ranges from 16th century colonialism through to the projection of Britain's imperial might in the late 19th century to its decline in the post-war era.

Art and the Empire City

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 9780870999574

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Art and the Empire City by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Presented in conjunction with the September 2000 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, this volume presents the complex story of the proliferation of the arts in New York and the evolution of an increasingly discerning audience for those arts during the antebellum period. Thirteen essays by noted specialists bring new research and insights to bear on a broad range of subjects that offer both historical and cultural contexts and explore the city's development as a nexus for the marketing and display of art, as well as private collecting; landscape painting viewed against the background of tourism; new departures in sculpture, architecture, and printmaking; the birth of photography; New York as a fashion center; shopping for home decorations; changing styles in furniture; and the evolution of the ceramics, glass, and silver industries. The 300-plus works in the exhibition and comparative material are extensively illustrated in color and bandw. Oversize: 9.25x12.25". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Artist and Empire

Sze Wee Low
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Author : Sze Wee Low
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art, British
ISBN : 9811106088

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Organised by National Gallery Singapore in association with Tate Britain, Artist and Empire: (En)countering Colonial Legacies critically examines the effects of the British Empire through the prism of art. This catalogue accompanying the exhibition underscores the thought-provoking ways in which artist and Empire affect each other--artists negotiating historical conditions of colonialism in their work, and visual representation altering perceptions of the Empire. Essays by exhibition curators and external scholars situate the concept of Empire within broader socio-political discourse, while selected key artworks from the exhibition are paired with curatorial text that illumines concerns underpinning the works. A comprehensive, pull-out timeline spanning the 16th to 20th centuries charts the scope of activities undertaken in the name of the Empire, and contextualises the pursuits of artists from former colonies.

Colour, Art and Empire

Natasha Eaton
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Author : Natasha Eaton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857722768

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Colour, Art and Empire explores the entanglements of visual culture, enchanted technologies, waste, revolution, resistance and otherness. The materiality of colour offers a critical and timely force-field for approaching afresh debates on colonialism. This book analyses the formation of colour and politics as qualitative overspill. Colour can be viewed both as central and supplemental to early photography, the totem, alchemy, tantra and mysticism. From the eighteenth-century Austrian Empress Maria Theresa to Rabindranath Tagore and Gandhi, to 1970s Bollywood, colour makes us adjust our take on the politics of the human sensorium as defamiliarising and disorienting. The four chapters conjecture how European, Indian and Papua New Guinean artists, writers, scientists, activists, anthropologists or their subjects sought to negotiate the highly problematic stasis of colour in the repainting of modernity. Specifically, the thesis of this book traces Europeans' admiration and emulation of what they termed 'Indian colour' to its gradual denigration and the emergence of a 'space of exception'. This space of exception pitted industrial colours against the colonial desire for a massive workforce whose slave-like exploitation ignited riots against the production of pigments - most notably indigo. Feared or derided, the figure of the vernacular dyer constituted a force capable of dismantling the imperial machinations of colour. Colour thus wreaks havoc with Western expectations of biological determinism, objectivity and eugenics. Beyond the cracks of such discursive practice, colour becomes a sentient and nomadic retort to be pitted against a perceived colonial hegemony. The ideological reinvention of colour as a resource for independence struggles make it fundamental to multivalent genealogies of artistic and political action and their relevance to the present.

Art and the British Empire

Timothy Barringer,Geoff Quilley,Douglas Fordham
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Author : Timothy Barringer,Geoff Quilley,Douglas Fordham
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719081939

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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.

Clémentine Deliss

Clémentine Deliss
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Author : Clémentine Deliss
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783775748018

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For quite some time now, ethnographic museums in Europe have been compelled to legitimate themselves. Their exhibition-making has become a topic of discussion, as has the contentious history of their collections, which have come about through colonial appropriation. Clearly, this cannot continue. That the situation can be different is something that Clémentine Deliss explores in her current publication. She offers an intriguing mix of autobiographically-informed novel and conceptual thesis on contemporary art and anthropology. Reflections on her own work while she was Director of Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum (Museum of World Cultures) are interwoven with the explorations of influential filmmakers, artists and writers. She introduces the Metabolic Museum as an interventionist laboratory for remediating ethnographic collections for future generations. CLÉMENTINE DELISS has achieved international renown as a curator, cultural historian and publisher of artist's books. In her role as Director of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, as a curator, and as a professor and researcher at eminent institutes and academies, she focuses on transdisciplinary and transcultural exchanges. She is Associate Curator of KW Berlin and Guest Professor at the Academy of Arts, Hamburg.

Art and Vision in the Inca Empire

Adam Herring
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Author : Adam Herring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107094369

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This book offers a new, art-historical interpretation of pre-contact Inca culture and power and includes over sixty color images.

The Art of Empire

Lee M. Jefferson,Robin M. Jensen
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Author : Lee M. Jefferson,Robin M. Jensen
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506402840

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In recent years, art historians such as Johannes Deckers (Picturing the Bible, 2009) have argued for a significant transition in fourth- and fifth-century images of Jesus following the conversion of Constantine. Broadly speaking, they perceive the image of a peaceful, benevolent shepherd transformed into a powerful, enthroned Jesus, mimicking and mirroring the dominance and authority of the emperor. The powers of church and state are thus conveniently synthesized in such a potent image. This deeply rooted position assumes that ante-pacem images of Jesus were uniformly humble while post-Constantinian images exuded the grandeur of power and glory. The Art of Empire contends that the art and imagery of Late Antiquity merits a more nuanced understanding of the context of the imperial period before and after Constantine. The chapters in this collection each treat an aspect of the relationship between early Christian art and the rituals, practices, or imagery of the Empire, and offer a new and fresh perspective on the development of Christian art in its imperial background.

The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450

Jaś Elsner
The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100 450 Book PDF

Author : Jaś Elsner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art, Early Christian
ISBN : 9780198768630

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First edition published in 1998 by Oxford University Press with the title Imperial Rome and Christian triumph: the art of the Roman Empire, AD 100-450.

Southeast Asia in Ruins

Sarah Tiffin
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Author : Sarah Tiffin
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789971698492

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Southeast Asia in Ruins by Sarah Tiffin Pdf

British artists and commentators in the late 18th and early 19th century encoded the twin aspirations of progress and power in images and descriptions of Southeast Asia’s ruined Hindu and Buddhist candi, pagodas, wats and monuments. To the British eye, images of the remains of past civilisations allowed, indeed stimulated, philosophical meditations on the rise and decline of entire empires. Ruins were witnesses to the fall, humbling and disturbingly prophetic prompts to speculation on imperial failure, and the remains of the Buddhist and Hindu monuments scattered across Southeast Asia proved no exception. This important study of a highly appealing but relatively neglected body of work adds multiple dimensions to the history of art and image production in Britain of the period, showing how the anxieties of empire were encoded in the genre of landscape paintings and prints.

Imperial Splendor

Jeffrey F. Hamburger,Joshua O'Driscoll
Imperial Splendor Book PDF

Author : Jeffrey F. Hamburger,Joshua O'Driscoll
Publisher : Giles
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1911282867

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Imperial Splendor by Jeffrey F. Hamburger,Joshua O'Driscoll Pdf

A highly-illustrated history and survey of centers of book production and use within the Holy Roman Empire over the course of seven hundred years.

Art and Empire

Kimbell Art Museum
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Author : Kimbell Art Museum
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870997386

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"The British Museum has one of the finest collections of Assyrian artifacts in the world, centered around the famous carved stone reliefs from the palaces of the Assyrian kings at Nimrud and Nineveh. Dating from the ninth to the seventh centuries B.C., these remarkable sculptures show the kings' exploits in battle and in hunting, and ceremonies at the Assyrian court. This catalogue describes their excavation in the mid-nineteenth century and the excitement aroused in Western Europe by the discovery of reliefs depicting peoples mentioned in the Bible. A broader picture of life in Assyria is created by numerous smaller objects, such as delicate ivories, embossed bronze bowls, ceramic and glass vessels, and exquisite cylinder seals carved in miniature. Particularly important are the clay tablets from the royal library of King Ashurbanipal, written in the cuneiform script and dealing with a wide range of subjects, from the administration of the empire to magic, religion and divination, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, history and literature. The book is written by a team of experts, mainly from the British Museum, and more than 250 items are described and illustrated in color, providing a magnificent record of one of the great civilizations of antiquity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Art & Empire

Mitchell A. Brown
Art Empire Book PDF

Author : Mitchell A. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 093710860X

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Spain’s Golden Age may be defined as the extraordinary moment when the visual arts, architecture, literature, and music all reached unprecedented heights. Featuring a diverse selection of more than 100 outstanding works produced by leading artists from Spain and its global territories, Art and Empire: The Golden Age of Spain is the first exhibition in the United States to expand the notion of the “Golden Age” to include the Hispanic world beyond the shores of the Iberian Peninsula. Such far-flung Spanish-controlled centers as Antwerp, Naples, Mexico, Lima, and the Philippines are represented by paintings, sculpture and decorative arts of astounding quality and variety from the pivotal years of about 1600 to 1750. Artists featured in the exhibition include Diego Velázquez, Peter Paul Rubens, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Francisco de Zurbarán, Jusepe de Ribera, El Greco, Juan de Valdés Leal, Juan Sánchez Cotán, and many more. This exhibition also marks the first time since the 1935 exhibition for the California Pacific International Exposition that all five of the Spanish masters represented on the Museum’s building façade—Velázquez, Murillo, Zurbarán, Ribera and El Greco—will be shown together at the Museum. Art and Empire: The Golden Age of Spain is organized into four sections including The Courtly Image: Portraiture in the Hispanic World; The Rise of Naturalism; Art in the Service of Faith; and Splendors of Daily Life and Global Materials, and represent more than 10 countries, including Belgium, Italy, Mexico, Peru and the Philippines. There will also be a wide variety of public programming to complement the show, including a symposium featuring notable scholars from around the world, a lecture by Gabriele Finaldi, director of the National Gallery, London, as well as a film series, textile and cochineal dye workshops, performances by the San Diego Ballet, a Spanish jazz band, traditional Flamenco performances, community and outreach programs, and much more.--from Exhibition's website