Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-century British Painting

by Beth Fowkes Tobin (Author)

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  1999

  $38.27

  A study of colonialism and art that examines the intersection of visual culture and political power in late-eighteenth-century British painting. Focusing on paintings from British America, West Indies, and India, it investigates the role of art in creating and maintaining imperial ideologies and practices - and resisting and complicating them.