The Routledge companion to art and the formation of empire

Abstract

"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. Analyzing a comprehensive array of media as well as inter-media dialogues, they analyze and intervene in how we remember and analyze entwinements between empire and aesthetic practices. In this volume's 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction: Solidifying as Rock: Enmeshed Layers of Empire / Emily C. Burns and Alice M. Rudy Price -- Part I: Sediment: The Dynamic Elements of Place -- 1.Colonial Complicities Beyond the Empire : Czechoslovakia in between Worlds and World's Fairs / Marta Filipová -- 2. "The Kingdom Grown Out of a Little Boy's Garden": Dole Pineapples and Hawaiian Occupation in U.S. Art and Visual Culture / Shana Klein -- 3. Imperialism for the Million: Mass-market Glasshouses and the Botanical Arts of Empire / Emily E. Mangione -- 4. Meditating on Aivazovsky's Black Sea: Representing Russian Imperial Expansion / Fatma Coşkuner -- 5. Beyond European Palettes: The Overlooked Contributions of Indigenized Artists in the Historiography of Painting in Mexico / Emmanuel Ortega -- 6. Beyond the Modernist Canon of Involuntary Aesthetic Colonization: Aina Onabolu's Mimicry as Rejection of Colonial Anti-modernity 1900-1937 / Clement E. Akpang -- Rambles in Natchez: John James Audubon and Colonial Aesthetics on the Mississippi Frontier (1820-1850) / Thomas Busciglio-Ritter -- Part II: What Moves the Sediment: Exchange and Conflict -- 8. The Empire Looks Back: Derivativeness in Nineteenth-century Brazilian Art / Rafael Cardoso -- 9. "Southern Fragrance" of the Japanese Empire: Visualizing Botany in Colonial Taiwan / Chinghsin Wu -- 10. How to Interpret John B. Flannagan Through Empire / Roberta K. Tarbell -- 11. Face-Off: A Russian Prince at the Courts of India / John Webley -- 12. Orientalism, Arts, and Scottish Identity: David Roberts (1796-1864) and David Wilkie (1785-1841) in the Ottoman Levant / Mohammad Sakhnini -- 13. Mapping the British Railways in Western Anatolia: From a Speculative to an Imperial Vision / Alexandra Solovyev -- 14. Manufacturing Empire: The Visual and Material Culture of Chicago's Marquette Building / Meagan Anderson Evans -- The Italian Fascist Vision for the "World of Tomorrow" at the New York 1939 World's Fair / Lucia Colombari -- Part III: What Solidifies the Sediment into Rock: Forces of Homogenization (or Consolidation) -- 16. Maternal Orientalism: Women's Work and the Photographs of Jessie Tarbox Beals at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition / Erin Hyde Nolan and Emily Voelker -- 17. ''Self-colonization' as a Cultural Strategy: Konstantin Korovin's Image of Russian Northern Peripheries / Giulia Gelmi -- 18. Adapting Empire for the Buying Public: The Algerian Conquest and a Printed Adaptation of Gros's Bonaparte Visiting the Plaguehouse at Jaffa / Alissa R. Adams -- 19. Surveying for Empire: Arthur Schott's Boundary Pictures and the Slavery Extension Controversy / Alexis Monroe -- 20. Whose American South? Winslow Homer and The Cuban Question / Ramey Mize -- 21. Hegemony, Hierarchy, and Struggle in Korean Colonial Art: The Activities and Artworks of Shinichi Yamada / Shin Min-jong.