Short description:

This companion comprises essays that analyze interactions between art and global imperial relationships from 1800 to World War II.

Long description:

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. Interpreting a comprehensive array of media as well as inter?media dialogues, they analyze and intervene in how we remember and examine 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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Solidifying as Rock: Enmeshed Layers of Empire  Part I: Sediment: The Dynamic Elements of Place  1.Colonial Complicities Beyond the Empire. Czechoslovakia Inbetween Worlds and World?s Fairs  2. ?The Kingdom Grown Out of a Little Boy?s Garden?: Dole Pineapples and Hawaiian Occupation in U.S. Art and Visual Culture  3. Imperialism for the Million: Mass-market Glasshouses and the Botanical Arts of Empire  4. Meditating on Aivazovsky?s Black Sea: Representing Russian Imperial Expansion  5. Beyond European Palettes: The Overlooked Contributions of Indigenized Artists in the Historiography of Painting in Mexico  6. Beyond the Modernist Canon of Involuntary Aesthetic Colonization: Aina Onabolu's Mimicry as Rejection of Colonial Anti-modernity 1900-1937. Rambles in Natchez: John James Audubon and Colonial Aesthetics on the Mississippi Frontier (1820-1850)  Part II: What Moves the Sediment: Exchange and Conflict 8. The Empire Looks Back: Derivativeness in Nineteenth-century Brazilian Art  9. ?Southern Fragrance? of the Japanese Empire: Visualizing Botany in Colonial Taiwan  10. How to Interpret John B. Flannagan Through Empire  11. Face-Off: A Russian Prince at the Courts of India  12. Orientalism, Arts, and Scottish Identity: David Roberts (1796-1864) and David Wilkie (1785-1841) in the Ottoman Levant  13. Mapping the British Railways in Western Anatolia: From a Speculative to an Imperial Vision  14. Manufacturing Empire: The Visual and Material Culture of Chicago?s Marquette Building  15. The Italian Fascism Vision for the ?World of Tomorrow? at the New York 1939 World?s Fair  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  17. ''Self-colonization' as a Cultural Strategy: Konstantin Korovin?s Image of Russian Northern Peripheries  18. Adapting Empire for the Buying Public: The Algerian Conquest and a Printed Adaptation of Gros?s Bonaparte Visiting the Plaguehouse at Jaffa  19. Surveying for Empire: Arthur Schott?s Boundary Pictures and the Slavery Extension Controversy  20. Whose American South? Winslow Homer and The Cuban Question  21. Hegemony, Hierarchy, and Struggle in Korean Colonial Art: The Activities and Artworks of Shinichi Yamada