Picturing Imperial Power Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting |
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Author:
| Tobin, Beth Fowkes |
ISBN: | 978-0-8223-2305-1 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1999 |
Publisher: | Duke University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $107.95 |
Book Description:
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Examines the intersection of visual culture and political power in late-eighteenth-century British painting. Focusing on paintings from British America, the West Indies, and India, Beth Fowkes Tobin investigates the role of art in creating and maintaining imperial ideologies and practices - as well as resisting and complicating them
Examines the intersection of visual culture and political power in late-eighteenth-century British painting. Focusing on paintings from British America, the West Indies, and India, Beth Fowkes Tobin investigates the role of art in creating and maintaining imperial ideologies and practices - as well as resisting and complicating them