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This collection examines the artistic production of both imperial nations and their colonies and shows how it was affected by colonial contact. Drawing together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds, Colonialism and the Object presents case studies of objects from India, Pakistan, New Zealand, China and Africa which were all collected by or exhibited in the institutions of the British Empire. Other chapters address issues of racial identity across cultural barriers, and the hybrid styles which can emerge when cultures meet. The contributors also consider how we, in the post-colonial era, should interpret the cultural production of the colonial world and how through displaying these objects, contemporary museum practice can address the artistic inheritance of colonialism. Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, University of Leicester, Karen Kettering, University of Dayton, USA, Rachel Layton, Nicholas Mirzoeff, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Cat
This collection examines the artistic production of both imperial nations and their colonies and shows how it was affected by colonial contact. Drawing together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds, Colonialism and the Object presents case studies of objects from India, Pakistan, New Zealand, China and Africa which were all collected by or exhibited in the institutions of the British Empire. Other chapters address issues of racial identity across cultural barriers, and the hybrid styles which can emerge when cultures meet. The contributors also consider how we, in the post-colonial era, should interpret the cultural production of the colonial world and how through displaying these objects, contemporary museum practice can address the artistic inheritance of colonialism. Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, University of Leicester, Karen Kettering, University of Dayton, USA, Rachel Layton, Nicholas Mirzoeff, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Cat
1. Introduction Part 1: 2. The South Kensington Museum and the Colonial Project 3. Chinese Material Culture and British Perceptions of China in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 4. China in Britain: The Imperial Collections 5. Colonial Architecture, International Exhibitions and Official Patronage of the Indian Artisan: The Case of a Gateway from Gwalior in the Victoria and Albert Museum 6. Stylistic Hybridity and Colonial Art and Design Education: A Wooden Carved Screen by Ram Singh 7. Race, Authenticity and Colonialism: A 'Mustice' Silversmith in Philadelphia and St. Croix, 1783-1850 8. Domesticating Uzbeks: Central Asians in Soviet Decorative Arts of the Twenties and Thirties 9. Keys to the Magic Kingdom: The Gallery of Transcultural Arts in Bradford Part 2: 10. Perspectives on Hinemihi - A Maori Meeting House 11. Maori Vision and the Imperialist Gaze 12. Gathering Souls and Objects: Missionary Collections 13. Photography at the Heart of Darkness: Herbert Lang's Congo Photographs (1909-15) 14. Taming the Tusk: Belgian Decorative Arts and the Promotion of Ivory as a Colonial Commodity at the 1897 Brussels International Exhibition Bibliography Index
Tim Barringer is a lecturer in History of Art at the University of
Birmingham, following earlier positions at Birbeck College,
University of London and the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London.
Tom Flynn is a freelance art historian and writer. He is currently
completing a book on sculpture and the body.
"The volume demonstrates the range of possibilities opened up by
the study of museums and museum collections from a postcolonial
perspective."
--Thomas Prasch, "Victorian Studies
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