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Art and the British empire / edited by Tim Barringer, Geoff Quilley and Douglas Fordham.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester [UK] and New York : Manchester University Press, 2007Description: xx, 442 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0719073928
  • 9780719073922
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.41 22
LOC classification:
  • N6764 .A78 2007
Contents:
1. The expanded field of the picturesque : contested identities and empire in Sydney-Cove 1794 / Ian McLean -- 2. The picturesque and the Palawa : John Glover's Mount Wellington, and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point / David Hansen -- 3. John Septimus Roc and the art of navigation, c. 1815-30 / Luciana Martins and Felix Driver -- 4. Colonial illusions : Australasian trompe l'aeil drawings / Roger Blackley -- 5. Ideas of 'home' in South African landscape : paintings by Thomas Bowler and Thomas Baines / Michael Godby -- 6. Scalping : social rites in Westminster Abbey / Douglas Fordham -- 7. 'Conquest, usurpation, wealth, luxury, famine' : Mortimer's banditti and the anxieties of empire / David H. Solkin -- 8. Ships of the 'line' : marine paintings at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1784 / Eleanor Hughes -- 9. Uranian imperialism : boys and empire in Edwardian England / Michael Halt -- 10. Homo-exoticism : John Minton in London and Jamaica, 1950-51 / Simon Faulkner -- 11. Critical cosmopolitanism : gifting and collecting art at Lucknow, 1775-97 / Natasha Eaton -- 12. Storm in a teacup? : visualising tea consumption in the British Empire / Romita Ray -- 13. The politics of portraiture behind the veil / Mary Roberts -- 14. A veil of truth and the details of empire : John Frederick Lewis's The Reception of 1873 / Emily M. Weeks -- 15. Imperial masculinity, mimicry and the new woman in Rhodes of Africa / Julie F. Codell -- 16. Savage marks : engraving and empire in Thomas Harriot's Briefe and True Report / Michael Gaudio -- 17. Always there : aboriginal people and the consolation of miniature portraiture in British North America / Kristina Huneault -- 18. Fractured families : John Davis's photo-portraits of Robert Louis Stevenson and 'family' in Samoa / Leonard Bell -- 19. Gentlemen at leisure : riding breeches in the photographic portrait images of black South African men / Sandra Klopper -- 20. 'A paralysis of perspective' : image and text in the creation of an African chief / Jeff Guy.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-429) and index.

1. The expanded field of the picturesque : contested identities and empire in Sydney-Cove 1794 / Ian McLean -- 2. The picturesque and the Palawa : John Glover's Mount Wellington, and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point / David Hansen -- 3. John Septimus Roc and the art of navigation, c. 1815-30 / Luciana Martins and Felix Driver -- 4. Colonial illusions : Australasian trompe l'aeil drawings / Roger Blackley -- 5. Ideas of 'home' in South African landscape : paintings by Thomas Bowler and Thomas Baines / Michael Godby -- 6. Scalping : social rites in Westminster Abbey / Douglas Fordham -- 7. 'Conquest, usurpation, wealth, luxury, famine' : Mortimer's banditti and the anxieties of empire / David H. Solkin -- 8. Ships of the 'line' : marine paintings at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1784 / Eleanor Hughes -- 9. Uranian imperialism : boys and empire in Edwardian England / Michael Halt -- 10. Homo-exoticism : John Minton in London and Jamaica, 1950-51 / Simon Faulkner -- 11. Critical cosmopolitanism : gifting and collecting art at Lucknow, 1775-97 / Natasha Eaton -- 12. Storm in a teacup? : visualising tea consumption in the British Empire / Romita Ray -- 13. The politics of portraiture behind the veil / Mary Roberts -- 14. A veil of truth and the details of empire : John Frederick Lewis's The Reception of 1873 / Emily M. Weeks -- 15. Imperial masculinity, mimicry and the new woman in Rhodes of Africa / Julie F. Codell -- 16. Savage marks : engraving and empire in Thomas Harriot's Briefe and True Report / Michael Gaudio -- 17. Always there : aboriginal people and the consolation of miniature portraiture in British North America / Kristina Huneault -- 18. Fractured families : John Davis's photo-portraits of Robert Louis Stevenson and 'family' in Samoa / Leonard Bell -- 19. Gentlemen at leisure : riding breeches in the photographic portrait images of black South African men / Sandra Klopper -- 20. 'A paralysis of perspective' : image and text in the creation of an African chief / Jeff Guy.

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