Art and the British Empire by Barringer, T. J; Quilley, Geoff; Fordham, Douglas; Tate Britain (Gallery) instant download

Art and the British Empire by Barringer, T. J; Quilley, Geoff; Fordham, Douglas; Tate Britain (Gallery) instant download

xx, 442 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm, This volume is dedicated to the problematic relationship between art and the British Empire from the 16th century to decolonization in the 20th century. It examines a wide range of visual production, including book illustration, portraiture, monumental sculpture, genre and history painting, visual satire, and more, Essays developed from papers presented at a conference held at Tate Britain in 2001, Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-429) and index, The expanded field of the picturesque : contested identities and empire in Sydney-Cove 1794 / Ian McLean -- The picturesque and the Palawa : John Glover's Mount Wellington and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point / David Hansen -- John Septimus Roe and the art of navigation, c. 1815-30 / Luciana Martins and Felix Driver -- Colonial illusions : Australasian trompe l'œil drawings / Roger Blackley -- Ideas of \"home\" in South African landscape : paintings by Thomas Bowler and Thomas Baines / Michael Godby -- Scalping : social rites in Westminster Abbey / Douglas Fordham -- \"Conquest, usurpation, wealth, luxury, famine\" : Mortimer's banditti and the anxieties of empire / David H. Solkin -- Ships of the \"line\" : marine paintings at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1784 / Eleanor Hughes -- Uranian imperialism : boys and empire in Edwardian England / Michael Hatt -- Homo-exoticism : John Minton in London and Jamaica, 1950-51 / Simon Faulkner -- Critical cosmopolitanism : gifting and collecting art at Lucknow, 1775-97 / Natasha Eaton -- Storm in a teacup? Visualising tea consumption in the British Empire / Romita Ray -- The politics of portraiture behind the veil / Mary Roberts -- A veil of truth and the details of empire : John Frederick Lewis's The reception of 1873 / Emily M. Weeks -- Imperial masculinity, mimicry, and the new woman in Rhodes of Africa / Julie F. Codell -- Savage marks : engraving and empire in Thomas Harriot's Briefe and true report / Michael…