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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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Series: | Rethinking art's histories.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.