This companion comprises essays that analyze interactions between art and global imperial relationships from 1800 to World War II.
The essays in this volume expose and add to historical layers of meaning in their discussions of art and empire. Found across much of the globe, sites of sedimentary rock allegorize the dynamics of art and empire and frame the section structure for this book. Twenty-two authors unpack imperial layers in a variety of global and historical contexts through case studies that center art and visual and material culture. The authors show how art and aesthetics have operated as tools of empire. Interpreting a comprehensive array of media as well as inter-media dialogues, they analyze and intervene in how we remember and examine entwinements between empire and aesthetic practices. In this volumes attention to the role of art in imperial formation, as well as the legacy of colonization, the essays disentangle sediments of culture as they are moved and shaped by homogenizing forces of empire, showing that the aesthetics of empire inflect not only individuals, makers, and economies, but also practices of circulation and collecting.
The book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers, and professors and may be used in classes focused on art history, imperialism, and colonialism.
This companion comprises essays that analyze interactions between art and global imperial relationships from 1800 to World War II.
Introduction: Solidifying as Rock: Enmeshed Layers of Empire Part I:
Sediment: The Dynamic Elements of Place 1.Colonial Complicities Beyond the
Empire. Czechoslovakia Inbetween Worlds and Worlds Fairs
2. The Kingdom
Grown Out of a Little Boys Garden: Dole Pineapples and Hawaiian Occupation
in U.S. Art and Visual Culture
3. Imperialism for the Million: Mass-market
Glasshouses and the Botanical Arts of Empire
4. Meditating on Aivazovskys
Black Sea: Representing Russian Imperial Expansion
5. Beyond European
Palettes: The Overlooked Contributions of Indigenized Artists in the
Historiography of Painting in Mexico
6. Beyond the Modernist Canon of
Involuntary Aesthetic Colonization: Aina Onabolu's Mimicry as Rejection of
Colonial Anti-modernity 1900-1937. Rambles in Natchez: John James Audubon and
Colonial Aesthetics on the Mississippi Frontier (1820-1850) Part II: What
Moves the Sediment: Exchange and Conflict
8. The Empire Looks Back:
Derivativeness in Nineteenth-century Brazilian Art
9. Southern Fragrance of
the Japanese Empire: Visualizing Botany in Colonial Taiwan
10. How to
Interpret John B. Flannagan Through Empire
11. Face-Off: A Russian Prince at
the Courts of India
12. Orientalism, Arts, and Scottish Identity: David
Roberts (1796-1864) and David Wilkie (1785-1841) in the Ottoman Levant
13.
Mapping the British Railways in Western Anatolia: From a Speculative to an
Imperial Vision
14. Manufacturing Empire: The Visual and Material Culture of
Chicagos Marquette Building
15. The Italian Fascism Vision for the World of
Tomorrow at the New York 1939 Worlds Fair Part III: What Solidifies the
Sediment into Rock: Forces of Homogenization (or Consolidation)
16. Maternal
Orientalism: Womens Work and the Photographs of Jessie Tarbox Beals at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition
17. ''Self-colonization' as a Cultural
Strategy: Konstantin Korovins Image of Russian Northern Peripheries
18.
Adapting Empire for the Buying Public: The Algerian Conquest and a Printed
Adaptation of Gross Bonaparte Visiting the Plaguehouse at Jaffa
19.
Surveying for Empire: Arthur Schotts Boundary Pictures and the Slavery
Extension Controversy
20. Whose American South? Winslow Homer and The Cuban
Question
21. Hegemony, Hierarchy, and Struggle in Korean Colonial Art: The
Activities and Artworks of Shinichi Yamada
Emily C. Burns is Director, Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, and Associate Professor of Art History at University of Oklahoma.
Alice M. Rudy Price is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, and Thomas Jefferson University, College of Architecture and the Built Environment.
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