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Picturing imperial power : colonial subjects in eighteenth-century British painting /
This study of colonialism and art examines the intersection of visual culture and political power in late-eighteenth-century British painting. Focusing on paintings from British America, the West Indies, and India, Beth Fowkes Tobin investigates the role of art in creating and maintaining imperial i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, North Carolina :
Duke University Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward a Cultural History of Colonialism
- Chapter 1. Bringing the Empire Home: The Black Servant in Domestic Portraiture
- Chapter 2. Native Land and Foreign Desires: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians
- Chapter 3. Cultural Cross-Dressing in British America: Portraits of British Officers and Mohawk Warriors
- Chapter 4. Accommodating India: Domestic Arrangements in Anglo-Indian Family Portraiture
- Chapter 5. Taxonomy and Agency in Brunias's West Indian Paintings
- Chapter 6. Imperial Designs: Botantical Illustration and the British Botanic Empire Chapter 7. The Imperial Politics of the Local and the Universal
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index