Art and the British empire : edited by Timothy Barringer, Geoff Quilley and Douglas Fordham.
Author(s): Quilley, Geoff | Barringer, Timothy
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Art and the British empire
- Author(s)
- Barringer, Timothy
Quilley, Geoff - Publisher
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, c2007
- Collation
- xx, 442 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps
25 cm. - ISBN
- 9780719081934
- Dewey Class
- 709.41
- Contents
- The expanded field of the picturesque : contested identities and empire in Sydney-Cove 1794 / Ian McLean -- The picturesque and the Palawa : John Glover's Mount Wellington and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point / David Hansen -- John Septimus Roe and the art of navigation, c. 1815-30 / Luciana Martins and Felix Driver -- Colonial illusions : Australasian trompe l'œil drawings / Roger Blackley -- Ideas of "home" in South African landscape : paintings by Thomas Bowler and Thomas Baines / Michael Godby -- Scalping : social rites in Westminster Abbey / Douglas Fordham -- "Conquest, usurpation, wealth, luxury, famine" : Mortimer's banditti and the anxieties of empire / David H. Solkin -- Ships of the "line" : marine paintings at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1784 / Eleanor Hughes -- Uranian imperialism : boys and empire in Edwardian England / Michael Hatt -- Homo-exoticism : John Minton in London and Jamaica, 1950-51 / Simon Faulkner -- Critical cosmopolitanism : gifting and collecting art at Lucknow, 1775-97 / Natasha Eaton -- Storm in a teacup? Visualising tea consumption in the British Empire / Romita Ray -- The politics of portraiture behind the veil / Mary Roberts -- A veil of truth and the details of empire : John Frederick Lewis's The reception of 1873 / Emily M. Weeks -- Imperial masculinity, mimicry, and the new woman in Rhodes of Africa / Julie F. Codell -- Savage marks : engraving and empire in Thomas Harriot's Briefe and true report / Michael Gaudio -- Always there : aboriginal people and the consolation of miniature portraiture in British North America / Kristina Huneault -- Fractured families : John Davis's photo-portraits of Robert Louis Stevenson and "family" in Samoa / Leonard Bell -- Gentleman at leisure : riding breeches in the photographic portrait images of black South African men / Sandra Klopper -- "A paralysis of perspective" : image and text in the creation of an African chief / Jeff Guy.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Art, British -- Congresses.
Art, Colonial -- History -- Congresses. - BRN
- 5998
Notes
- Essays developed from papers presented at a conference held at Tate Britain in 2001.
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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Books
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709.41 ART
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