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Empires of light : vision, visibility and power in colonial India /
Light was central to the visual politics and imaginative geographies of empire, even beyond its role as a symbol of knowledge and progress in post-Enlightenment narratives. This book describes how imperial mappings of geographical space in terms of 'cities of light' and 'hearts of dar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Rethinking art's histories.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : writing photo-graphic histories of empire
- Part I. Technologies of illumination. Through the glass darkly : the phantasmagoria of Elephanta
- Four acts of seeing : the veil as technology of illumination
- Part II. 'Visibility is a trap' : battles of the veil. 'Purdah hai purdah!' : proscenium theatre and technologies of illusionism
- Erotics of the body politic : the naked and the clothed
- Part III. Chiaroscuro, portraiture and subjectivity. Private lives and interior spaces : masculine subjects in Ravi Varma's scholar paintings
- Impossible subjects : the subaltern in the shadows.