Art And The British Empire

Author : Timothy Barringer,Geoff Quilley,Douglas Fordham
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719081939

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Art and the British Empire by Timothy Barringer,Geoff Quilley,Douglas Fordham Pdf

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 Recent scholarship in history, anthropology, literature and post-colonial studies has superseded traditional definitions of empire as a monolithic political and economic project.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.

Author : Renate Dohmen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781526122957

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Empire and Art by Renate Dohmen Pdf

The book examines the interactions between Britain and India during the Raj in relation to issues of empire and visual culture. It explores the impact of the Anglo-Indian colonial encounter on the arts and aesthetic traditions of both cultures. Presenting a unique overview that ranges from painting, print-making and photography to architecture, exhibitions and Indian crafts, the book considers the art of urban elites and princely states alongside popular arts. The book highlights the key role of art in forging British colonial ideology. It offers accessible discussions of issues such as Orientalism and (post)colonialism and presents current approaches to questions of British art and empire. It is structured around visual examples which include early nineteenth-century British views of India, Indian negotiations of Western aesthetics represented by Company painting, Kalighat art, and the rise of Indian national art. It covers the display of Indian crafts both in India and at international exhibitions in Britain, as well as the place of India in the British Arts and Crafts movement. The role of the market and items of fashion such as the Kashmir shawl are also discussed, along with the role of photography in representing the colony and questions around national and imperial architecture. The book is aimed at students but will also be relevant to members of the general public with an interest in questions of art, visual culture and empire in relation to Britain and British India.

Author : Sze Wee Low
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art, British
ISBN : 9811106088

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Artist and Empire by Sze Wee Low Pdf

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.

Author : Holger Hoock
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847652232

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Empires of the Imagination by Holger Hoock Pdf

Between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries, Britain evolved from a substantial international power yet relative artistic backwater into a global superpower and a leading cultural force in Europe. In this original and wide-ranging book, Hoock illuminates the manifold ways in which the culture of power and the power of culture were interwoven in this period of dramatic change. Britons invested artistic and imaginative effort to come to terms with the loss of the American colonies; to sustain the generation-long fight against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France; and to assert and legitimate their growing empire in India. Demonstrating how Britain fought international culture wars over prize antiquities from the Mediterranean and Near East, the book explores how Britons appropriated ancient cultures from the Mediterranean, the Near East, and India, and casts a fresh eye on iconic objects such as the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon Marbles.

Author : Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Publisher : London : J.W. Parker
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Colonization
ISBN : OXFORD:591022122

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A View of the Art of Colonization by Edward Gibbon Wakefield Pdf

"The colonist ([is] Wakefield himself) ... dictated to A. Allom in 100 days ... when plans for the Canterbury settlement were gathering momentum ... today it is chiefly of interest as much for the autobiographical passages as for the oft-repeated theoretical concepts. Includes in appendix Charles Buller's April 1843 speech in the House of Commons on systemic colonisation and a letter to Sir Benjamin Hawes, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, by four leading colonists protesting at Grey's interpretation of the New Zealand Government Act of 1846"--Bagnall.

Author : Alison Smith,David Blayney Brown,Carol Jacobi
Publisher : Tate
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 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.

Author : Charles Holme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Landscape painting
ISBN : OCLC:1125908264

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Art of the British Empire Overseas by Charles Holme Pdf

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781538126905

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Women's Art of the British Empire by Mary Ellen Snodgrass Pdf

The spread of the British Empire around the globe made vast changes in the relationship of peoples to places. Because the logistics of colonization varied, countries passed in and out of the empire, some rapidly and others slower or by degrees. Multiculturalism broadened the world’s ability to read the English language and understand and adopt England’s ethics and morals. Into the early twentieth century, the posting of the British army and navy and the establishment of English-style embassies and police forces in remote colonies freed single travelers, especially women and children, of the fear of violence or kidnap. As a result, girls and women found outlets for creativity by exploring unfamiliar lands. In Women's Art of the British Empire, Mary Ellen Snodgrass provides an overview of multiracial arts and crafts from Great Britain’s Empire. Drawing upon primary sources, this volume encompasses a wide variety of artistic accomplishment, such as: sewing and quilting basketry and weaving songwriting and dancing diaries, memoirs, editorials, and speeches Each entry includes a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources, as well as further readings on the female artists and their respective crafts. With its informative entries and extensive examinations of artistic talent, Women's Art of the British Empire is a valuable resource for students, scholars, and anyone interested in learning about the history of women and their artistic contributions.

Author : Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000391299

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De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes Pdf

De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire aims to offer a timely and inclusive contribution to the evolving cross-disciplinary scholarship that connects visual studies with British imperial historiography. The key purpose of this book is to introduce scholars and students of British imperial and Commonwealth history to a clearly presented and diversely themed evaluation of several "visual manuscripts" – images of all genres depicting particular events, personalities, social and cultural contexts – that document the development of some of the British imperial and post-colonial visual literacies history. The concept of "visual manuscripts" alongside theories of visual anthropology and memory studies are addressed across the entire volume thus allowing the readers to approach with greater ease the discourse on imperial iconography and historiography.

Author : Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1355657687

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A View of the Art of Colonization, with Present Reference to the British Empire by Edward Gibbon Wakefield Pdf

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Author : Douglas Fordham
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780812242430

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British Art and the Seven Years' War by Douglas Fordham Pdf

Between the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 and the American Declaration of Independence, London artists transformed themselves from loosely organized professionals into one of the most progressive schools of art in Europe. In British Art and the Seven Years' War Douglas Fordham argues that war and political dissent provided potent catalysts for the creation of a national school of art. Over the course of three tumultuous decades marked by foreign wars and domestic political dissent, metropolitan artists—especially the founding members of the Royal Academy, including Joshua Reynolds, Paul Sandby, Joseph Wilton, Francis Hayman, and Benjamin West—creatively and assiduously placed fine art on a solid footing within an expansive British state. London artists entered into a golden age of art as they established strategic alliances with the state, even while insisting on the autonomy of fine art. The active marginalization of William Hogarth's mercantile aesthetic reflects this sea change as a newer generation sought to represent the British state in a series of guises and genres, including monumental sculpture, history painting, graphic satire, and state portraiture. In these allegories of state formation, artists struggled to give form to shifting notions of national, religious, and political allegiance in the British Empire. These allegiances found provocative expression in the contemporary history paintings of the American-born artists Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, who managed to carve a patriotic niche out of the apolitical mandate of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Author : Edward Gibbon WAKEFIELD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018530282

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A View of the Art of Colonization, with present reference to the British Empire; in letters between a statesman and a colonist. Edited [or rather written] by E. G. W. by Edward Gibbon WAKEFIELD Pdf

Author : Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Colonization
ISBN : OCLC:559263420

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A View of the Art of Colonization by Edward Gibbon Wakefield Pdf

Author : Fintan Cullen
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Art
ISBN : 1788743008

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Ireland and the British Empire by Fintan Cullen Pdf

"This collection of essays discusses how the British empire resonates in a huge array of visual culture in Ireland from the late eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. The book is about the way empire has pervaded and continues to pervade Irish art and visual culture. The collection of essays expands the analysis of things visual in terms of Ireland and the British empire to include a broad range of cultural matter: art exhibitions, museums and their displays, architecture, photography, illustrated books, fashion, public and private performances and entertainments, as well as paintings, sculpture, prints and book illustration. The essays only touch on some of the issues that need to be discussed in relation to Ireland and the visual culture of imperialism, but it is hoped that this volume will spark others to investigate the topic and thus greatly expand Irish visual historiography"--

Author : Charles Holme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Art
ISBN : PRNC:32101066450154

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Art of the British Empire Overseas by Charles Holme Pdf