{"product_id":"empires-of-vision-9780822354482","title":"Empires of Vision","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining visual culture and postcolonial studies, this reader shows that an appreciation of the role of visual experience is necessary for understanding how colonialism worked and how colonized subjects spoke to imperial rulers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEmpires of Vision\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those books that \u003ci\u003ehad\u003c\/i\u003e to be written, and that required, not a single author, but an interdisciplinary and cosmopolitan collective of scholarly learning and critical passion. In a brilliant series of interventions, the authors gathered here survey the full range of ways in which imperialism worked its black magic, not just with the standard tools of armies and military technologies, bureaucracies and gunboats, but with photographs, paintings, maps, and the whole range of visual arts and media. This is essential reading for art historians, anthropologists, and scholars of visual culture across the globe.\"—\u003cb\u003eW. J. T. Mitchell\u003c\/b\u003e, author of\u003ci\u003e Seeing Through Race\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The culture of empire has been assessed and analyzed most frequently on the evidence of its 'writings.' It is the inscriptive archives of law, literature, anthropology, history, and theology, amongst others, that have dominated our view of the representational conditions and ideological commitments that prevail in colonial societies. But empire was a potent apparatus for looking, viewing, and gazing—an act of surveillance, an art of regulation, and a profound shaper of visual culture. No collaboration could be as fruitful as the shared spirits of Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy, who serve as our gifted cicerones in the world of empire's seeing. They have gathered together some of the most important essays that explore the visual domain of empire's rule and misrule, and their anthology will have a transformative effect on art history, the history of ideas, and postcolonial studies.\"—\u003cb\u003eHomi K. Bhabha\u003c\/b\u003e, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e“Duke University Press has done social visionaries a real service by printing Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy’s massive collection of insightful articles unveiling how the very way we see the world is daily shaped by ‘pictorial practices, image-making technologies, and vision-oriented subjectivities’ that have been ‘entangled in empire-building, nationalist reactions, post colonial contestations, and transnational globalization.’ It is not just economic or military power that shapes the way we see the world, but also photographs, paintings, maps, and the whole range of visual arts and media that are scrutinized in this collection.” * Tikkun *\u003cbr\u003e“The power of \u003ci\u003eEmpires of Vision\u003c\/i\u003e is in its trans-disciplinary scope, but is also in its ambition. The themes and essays come together and prod the reader to consider the multi-dimensionality of image and empire. It moves beyond mere collections and museums; it moves beyond observed and observer. Empires of Vision examines the nature of empire through oft-forgotten and frequently overlooked historical characters.” -- Lydia Pyne * Somatosphere *\u003cbr\u003e\"An essential contribution to an ever-expanding field of investigation as much as it is fascinating reading.\" -- Sandra Marques * Social Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e\"The volume...comprises a sound and valuable anthology of established research on visual culture, Empire, and the postcolony. As most of these contributions have become or are on the way to becoming canonical works, \u003ci\u003eEmpires of Vision\u003c\/i\u003e is exactly that — 'a reader.' As such, it is a valuable contribution to the field, and a useful text for those teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on visual culture, imperialism, and postcolonialism.\" -- Stephen Sheehi * Canadian Journal of History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations ix\u003cbr\u003e Reprint Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Work of Vision in the Age of European Empires \/ Sumathi Ramaswamy 1\u003cbr\u003e Section I: The Imperial Optic \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy 25\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Empires of the Palette \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Walls of Images \/ Serge Gruzinski 47\u003cbr\u003e 2. Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science \/ Daniela Bleichmar 64\u003cbr\u003e 3. Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette \/ Jordanna Bailkin 91\u003cbr\u003e 4. Colonial Panaromania \/ Roger Benjamin 111\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. The Mass-Printed Imperium \u003cbr\u003e 5. Objects of Knowledge: Oceanic Artifacts in European Engravings \/ Nicholas Thomas 141\u003cbr\u003e 6. Excess in the City? Consumption of Imported Prints in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1780–c. 1795 \/ Natasha Eaton 159\u003cbr\u003e 7. Advertising and the Optics of Colonial Power at the Fin de Siècle \/ David Ciarlo 189\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Mapping, Claiming, Reclaiming \u003cbr\u003e 8. Mapping Plus Ultra: Cartography, Space, and Hispanic Modernity \/ Ricardo Padrón 211\u003cbr\u003e 9. Mapping an Exotic World: The Global Project of Dutch Cartography, circa 1700 \/ Benjamin Schmidt 246\u003cbr\u003e 10. Visual Regimes of Colonization: European and Aboriginal Seeing in Australia \/ Terry Smith 267\u003cbr\u003e Part 4. The Imperial Lens \u003cbr\u003e 11. The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer-Era China (1900–1901), Making Civilization \/ James L. Hevia 283\u003cbr\u003e 12. Colonial Theaters of Proof: Representation and Laughter in the 1930s Rockefeller Foundation Hygeine Cinema in Java \/ Eric A. Stein 315\u003cbr\u003e 13. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema \/ Brian Larkin 346\u003cbr\u003e Section II. Postcolonial Looking \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy 377\u003cbr\u003e Part 5. Subaltern Seeing: An Overlap of Complexities \u003cbr\u003e 14. Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse \/ Zeynep Çelik 395\u003cbr\u003e 15. Maps, Mother\/Goddesses, and Martyrdom in Modern India \/ Sumathi Ramaswamy 415\u003cbr\u003e 16. Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism \/ Christopher Pinney 450\u003cbr\u003e 17. \"I Am Rendered Speechless by Your Idea of Beauty\": The Picturesque in History and Art in the Postcolony \/ Krista A. Thompson 471\u003cbr\u003e 18. Fanon, Algeria, and the Cinema: The Politics of Identification \/ Robert Stam 503\u003cbr\u003e Part 6. Regarding and Reconstituting Europe \u003cbr\u003e 19. Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection \/ Christopher Pinney 539\u003cbr\u003e 20. Picasso, Africa, and the Schemata of Difference \/ Simon Gikandi 566\u003cbr\u003e 21. \u003ci\u003eDouble Dutch\u003c\/i\u003e and the Culture Game \/ Olu Oguibe 594\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. A Parting Glance: Empire and Visuality \/ Martin Jay 609\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 621\u003cbr\u003e Index 629","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406075339095,"sku":"9780822354482","price":30.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822354482.jpg?v=1730494443","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/empires-of-vision-9780822354482","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}