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This companion analyzes interactions between the arts and global imperial relationships from around 1800 through the 20th century.
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Introduction: Instability and Resistance: Collaging Empire and its Challenges
Part I: What Breaks Down the Rock: Fissures and Eruptions 1. The Art of Returning Home: Lars Hætta's Miniature
Duodji 2. Art and Identity Caught Between Two Powers: How Dante's Image Became a Symbol of Colonial Resistance in Malta 3. The Uncertainties of Empire: Horace Vernet in Algeria, 1833 4. Alphonse de Lamartine, the Haitian Revolution and Imperialism: The Contingencies of France's Empire in Lamartine's
Toussaint Louverture 5. Pablita Velarde: Extractive Economies of Empire and Indigenous Resistance 6. Prefabricated Promises: The Te Pahi House 7. The Art of Empire: Amrita Sher-Gil's
Two Girls (1939)
Part II: The Detritus: Layers of Empire 8. The Fabric of Empires: Delacroix, Trade, and the Women of Algiers 9. Ivan Aivazovsky's Imperial Sublime: The Politics and Aesthetics of Romantic Landscape Painting in the Age of Empire 10. Race and the Problem of Impressionist Skin 11. Unity in Diversity: The Austro-Hungarian Art and Art-Industry Exhibition 1899-1900 in St. Petersburg 12. Her Works: Chinese Embroidery and Australian Art Needlework at the First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work in 1907 13. New Displays in the Old Capital: The Architecture of Bursa Expositions in the Turn-of-the-Century Ottoman Empire
Part III: Human Impact on Sediment: Afterimages 14. What's In a Photo? Frederick Douglass and Ram Singh II, Maharaj of Jaipur. Or: Lateral Art History and The Postindian Trickster, An Experiment in Method 15. Backdrops as Middle Ground: Photographic Portraiture and the Sites of Native American Resistance 16. Public Shared Spaces and Absent Divides. Urban Identity and Spatial Dynamics of Colonial Urbanism under Portuguese, French and Danish Rules: Diu, Pondicherry and Tranquebar 17. Art, Agriculture and Colonialism - Revisiting 19th-Century Danish Landscape Painting in Museums 18. Visualizing Colonial Dispossession: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Imperial Impressionism, and the Art of Empire 19. Drawing Made Easy: Akin¿la Läekan and Colonial Art Education in Nigeria 20. Cultural Erasure: How Western Art Institutions Perpetuate Russian Imperialism 21. Living Cultural Legacies: North American Indigenous Arts of the Northeast under Imperial Rule
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Emily C. Burns is Director, Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West and Associate Professor of Art History at University of Oklahoma.
Alice M. Rudy Price is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture and Thomas Jefferson University, College of Architecture and the Built Environment.
