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Art and the British Empire Paperback / softback - 2009
by Tim Barringer
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- Title Art and the British Empire
- Author Tim Barringer
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Condition New
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Date 2009-09
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780719081934
- ISBN 9780719081934 / 0719081939
- Weight 2.5 lbs (1.13 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 7.1 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 18.03 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Dewey Decimal Code 709.41
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From the rear cover
This pioneering study argues that the concept of 'empire' belongs at the centre, rather than in the margins, of British art history. Recent scholarship in history, anthropology, literature and post-colonial studies has superseded traditional definitions of empire as a monolithic political and economic project. Emerging across the humanities is the idea of empire as a complex and contested process, mediated materially and imaginatively by multifarious forms of culture.
The twenty essays in Art and the British Empire offer compelling methodological solutions to this ambiguity, while engaging in subtle visual analysis of a previously neglected body of work. Authors from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the USA and the UK examine a wide range of visual production, including book illustration, portraiture, monumental sculpture, genre and history painting, visual satire, marine and landscape painting, photography and film. Together these essays propose a major shift in the historiography of British art and a blueprint for further research.