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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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| Collection: | Rethinking art's histories.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 darkness' coincided with the industrialisation of light (in homes, streets, theatres) and its instrumentalisation through new representative forms (photography, film, magic lanterns, theatrical lighting). Cataloguing the imperial vision in its engagement with colonial India, the book evaluates responses by the celebrated Indian painter Ravi Varma (1848-1906) to reveal the centrality of light in technologies of vision, not merely as an ideological effect but as a material presence that produces spaces and inscribes bodies. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xiii, 284 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526139641 1526139642 9781526139658 1526139650 |