Art In The Time Of Colony (Empire And The Making Of The Modern World, 1650-2000)

It is often assumed that the verbal and visual languages of indigenous people had little influence upon the classification of scientific, legal, and artistic objects in the metropolises and museums of nineteenth-century colonial powers. However, as this book demonstrates, it is a fallacy that colonized locals merely collected material for interested colonizers. Through an analysis of particular language notations and drawings hidden in colonial documents and a reexamination of cross-cultural communication, the book writes biographies for five objects that exemplify the tensions of nineteenth century history.

• • Author: Dr Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Jun 02, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 336 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1409455963
• • ISBN-13: 9781409455967