Introduction: The Work of Vision in the Age of European Empires

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Reprint Acknowledgments xi
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction: The Work of Vision in the Age of European Empires 1
7. Section I: The Imperial Optic
8. Introduction 25
9. PART 1: EMPIRES OF THE PALETTE
10. CHAPTER 1. The Walls of Images 47
11. CHAPTER 2. Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science 64
12. CHAPTER 3. Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette 91
13. CHAPTER 4. Colonial Panaromania 111
14. PART 2: THE MASS-PRINTED IMPERIUM
15. CHAPTER 5. Objects of Knowledge: Oceanic Artifacts in European Engravings 141
16. CHAPTER 6. Excess in the City? The Consumption of Imported Prints in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1780–c. 1795 159
17. CHAPTER 7. Advertising and the Optics of Colonial Power at the Fin de Siècle 189
18. PART 3: MAPPING, CLAIMING, RECLAIMING
19. CHAPTER 8. Mapping Plus Ultra: Cartography, Space, and Hispanic Modernity 211
20. CHAPTER 9. Mapping an Exotic World: The Global Project of Dutch Cartography, circa 1700 246
21. CHAPTER 10. Visual Regimes of Colonization: European and Aboriginal Seeing in Australia 267
22. PART 4: THE IMPERIAL LENS
23. CHAPTER 11. The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer-Era China (1900–1901), Making Civilization 283
24. CHAPTER 12. Colonial Theaters of Proof: Representation and Laughter in 1930s Rockefeller Foundation Hygiene Cinema in Java 315
25. CHAPTER 13. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema 346
26. Section II: Postcolonial Looking
27. Introduction 377
28. PART 5: SUBALTERN SEEING: AN OVERLAP OF COMPLEXITIES
29. CHAPTER 14. Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse 395
30. CHAPTER 15. Maps, Mother/Goddesses, and Martyrdom in Modern India 415
31. CHAPTER 16. Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism 450
32. CHAPTER 17. “I Am Rendered Speechless by Your Idea of Beauty”: The Picturesque in History and Art in the Postcolony 471
33. CHAPTER 18. Fanon, Algeria, and the Cinema: The Politics of Identification 503
34. PART 6: REGARDING AND RECONSTITUTING EUROPE
35. CHAPTER 19. Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection 539
36. CHAPTER 20. Picasso, Africa, and the Schemata of Difference 566
37. CHAPTER 21. Double Dutch and the Culture Game 594
38. Conclusion: A Parting Glance: Empire and Visuality 609
39. Contributors 621
40. Index 629