Art and the British empire / edited by Tim Barringer, Geoff Quilley and Douglas Fordham. - xx, 442 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-429) and index.

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

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Art, British--History
Art, Colonial--History
Colonies in art
Imperialism in art
Indigenous peoples in art
Art and society.

N6764 / .A78 2007

709.41