Empires of Vision
豆瓣
A Reader
Martin Jay / Sumathi Ramaswamy
简介
Empires of Vision brings together pieces by some of the most influential scholars working at the intersection of visual culture studies and the history of European imperialism. The essays and excerpts focus on the paintings, maps, geographical surveys, postcards, photographs, and other media that comprise the visual milieu of colonization, struggles for decolonization, and the lingering effects of empire. Taken together, they demonstrate that an appreciation of the role of visual experience is necessary for understanding the functioning of hegemonic imperial power and the ways that the colonized subjects spoke, and looked, back at their imperial rulers. Empires of Vision also makes a vital point about the complexity of image culture in the modern world: We must comprehend how regimes of visuality emerged globally, not only in the metropole but also in relation to the putative margins of a world that increasingly came to question the very distinction between center and periphery.
目录
Illustrations
Reprint Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Work of Vision in the Age of European Empires / Sumathi Ramaswamy
Section I: The Imperial Optic
Introduction / Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy
Part 1: Empires of the Palette
1. The Walls of Images / Serge Gruzinski
2. Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science / Daniela Bleichmar
3. Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette / Jordanna Bailkin
4. Colonial Panaromania / Roger Benjamin
Part 2. The Mass-Printed Imperium
5. Objects of Knowledge: Oceanic Artifacts in European Engravings / Nicholas Thomas
6. Excess in the City? Consumption of Imported Prints in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1780–c. 1795 / Natasha Eaton
7. Advertising and the Optics of Colonial Power at the Fin de Siècle / David Ciarlo
Part 3. Mapping, Claiming, Reclaiming
8. Mapping Plus Ultra: Cartography, Space, and Hispanic Modernity / Ricardo Padrón
9. Mapping an Exotic World: The Global Project of Dutch Cartography, circa 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt
10. Visual Regimes of Colonization: European and Aboriginal Seeing in Australia / Terry Smith
Part 4. The Imperial Lens
11. The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer-Era China (1900–1901), Making Civilization / James L. Hevia
12. Colonial Theaters of Proof: Representation and Laughter in the 1930s Rockefeller Foundation Hygeine Cinema in Java / Eric A. Stein
13. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema / Brian Larkin
Section II. Postcolonial Looking
Introduction / Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy
Part 5. Subaltern Seeing: An Overlap of Complexities
14. Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse / Zeynep Çelik
15. Maps, Mother/Goddesses, and Martyrdom in Modern India / Sumathi Ramaswamy
16. Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism / Christopher Pinney
17. "I Am Rendered Speechless by Your Idea of Beauty": The Picturesque in History and Art in the Postcolony / Krista A. Thompson
18. Fanon, Algeria, and the Cinema: The Politics of Identification / Robert Stam
Part 6. Regarding and Reconstituting Europe
19. Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection / Christopher Pinney
20. Picasso, Africa, and the Schemata of Difference / Simon Gikandi
21. Double Dutch and the Culture Game / Olu Oguibe
Conclusion. A Parting Glance: Empire and Visuality / Martin Jay
Contributors
Index