Art and the British Empire by Barringer, Tim

Art and the British Empire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780719081934)

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Art and the British Empire by Barringer, Tim

Art and the British Empire

$45.95
Art and the British Empire by Barringer, Tim

Art and the British Empire

$45.95
Format: Paperback
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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 Recent scholarship in history, anthropology, literature and post-colonial studies has superseded traditional definitions of empire as a monolithic political and economic project.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.

Author: Tim Barringer
ISBN-10: 0719081939
ISBN-13: 9780719081934
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 7.10w x 0.90d
By Tim Barringer
By Tim Barringer
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Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. Geoff Quilley is Curator of Maritime Art at the National Maritime Museum, London. Douglas Fordham is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia

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