LEADER 04264nam 22005774 450 001 9910807843403321 005 20140904031000.0 010 $a0-8223-9749-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822397496 035 $a(CKB)3710000000238755 035 $a(EBL)3008094 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001335685 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12595823 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001335685 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11288523 035 $a(PQKB)10420001 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3008094 035 $a889924294 035 $a(OCoLC)1164531140 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse80468 035 $a(DE-B1597)552157 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822397496 035 $a(OCoLC)893681567 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000238755 100 $a20140903d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPicturing imperial power $ecolonial subjects in eighteenth-century British painting /$fBeth Fowkes Tobin 210 1$aDurham, N.C. :$cDuke University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8223-2338-9 311 $a0-8223-2305-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [227]-299) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: toward a cultural history of colonialism -- Bringing the empire home: the Black servant in domestic portraiture -- Native land and foreign desires: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians -- Cultural cross-dressing in British America: portraits of British officers and Mohawk warriors -- Accommodating India: domestic arrangements in Anglo-Indian family portraiture -- Taxonomy and agency in Brunias's West Indian paintings -- Imperial designs: botanical illustration and the British botanic empire -- Imperial politics of the local and the universal. 330 $aThis study of colonialism and art 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 in resisting and complicating them.Informed by the varied perspectives of postcolonial theory, Tobin explores through close readings of colonial artwork the dynamic middle ground in which cultures meet. Linking specific colonial sites with larger patterns of imperial practice and policy, she examines paintings by William Hogarth, Benjamin West, Gilbert Stuart, Arthur William Devis, and Agostino Brunias, among others. These works include portraits of colonial officials, conversation pieces of British families and their servants, portraits of Native Americans and Anglo-Indians, and botanical illustrations produced by Calcutta artists for officials of the British Botanic Gardens. In addition to examining the strategies that colonizers employed to dominate and define their subjects, Tobin uncovers the tactics of negotiation, accommodation, and resistance that make up the colonized?s response to imperial authority. By focusing on the paintings? cultural and political engagement with imperialism, she accounts for their ideological power and visual effect while arguing for their significance as agents in the colonial project.Pointing to the complexity, variety, and contradiction within colonial art, Picturing Imperial Power contributes to an understanding of colonialism as a collection of social, economic, political, and epistemological practices that were not monolithic and inevitable, but contradictory and contingent on various historical forces. It will interest students and scholars of colonialism, imperial history, postcolonial history, art history and theory, and cultural studies. 606 $aPainting, British$y18th century$xThemes, motives 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xIn art 615 0$aPainting, British$xThemes, motives. 676 $a758/.9325341 686 $aLO 62140$2rvk 700 $aTobin$b Beth Fowkes$01655583 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807843403321 996 $aPicturing imperial power$94008010 997 $aUNINA