Abstract: Illustrations ix Reprint Acknowledgments xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction: The Work of Vision in the Age of European Empires / Sumathi Ramaswamy 1 Section I: The Imperial Optic Introduction / Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy 25 Part 1: Empires of the Palette 1. The Walls of Images / Serge Gruzinski 47 2. Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science / Daniela Bleichmar 64 3. Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette / Jordanna Bailkin 91 4. Colonial Panaromania / Roger Benjamin 111 Part 2. The Mass-Printed Imperium 5. Objects of Knowledge: Oceanic Artifacts in European Engravings / Nicholas Thomas 141 6. Excess in the City? Consumption of Imported Prints in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1780-c. 1795 / Natasha Eaton 159 7. Advertising and the Optics of Colonial Power at the Fin de Siecle / David Ciarlo 189 Part 3. Mapping, Claiming, Reclaiming 8. Mapping Plus Ultra: Cartography, Space, and Hispanic Modernity / Ricardo Padron 211 9. Mapping an Exotic World: The Global Project of Dutch Cartography, circa 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt 246 10. Visual Regimes of Colonization: European and Aboriginal Seeing in Australia / Terry Smith 267 Part 4. The Imperial Lens 11. The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer-Era China (1900-1901), Making Civilization / James L. Hevia 283 12. Colonial Theaters of Proof: Representation and Laughter in the 1930s Rockefeller Foundation Hygeine Cinema in Java / Eric A. Stein 315 13. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema / Brian Larkin 346 Section II. Postcolonial Looking Introduction / Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy 377 Part 5. Subaltern Seeing: An Overlap of Complexities 14. Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse / Zeynep Celik 395 15. Maps, Mother/Goddesses, and Martyrdom in Modern India / Sumathi Ramaswamy 415 16. Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism / Christopher Pinney 450 17. I Am Rendered Speechless by Your Idea of Beauty: The Picturesque in History and Art in the Postcolony / Krista A. Thompson 471 18. Fanon, Algeria, and the Cinema: The Politics of Identification / Robert Stam 503 Part 6. Regarding and Reconstituting Europe 19. Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection / Christopher Pinney 539 20. Picasso, Africa, and the Schemata of Difference / Simon Gikandi 566 21. Double Dutch and the Culture Game / Olu Oguibe 594 Conclusion. A Parting Glance: Empire and Visuality / Martin Jay 609 Contributors 621 Index 629
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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