Main entry:

Zarobell, John.

Title & Author:

Empire of landscape : space and ideology in French colonial Algeria / John Zarobell.

Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010.

Description:

xv, 196 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index.
Jean-Charles Langlois' Panorama of Algiers (1833) and the prospective colonial landscape -- Algeria at the Museum of French history -- Illustrated travelogues and imperial tourism: the Journal de l'expédition des Portes de Fer -- Eugène Fromentin and Laghouat: artistic and colonial frontiers -- Beyond landscape imagery: the photographic seizure of the colonial landscape -- Abstracting space: remaking the landscape of colonial Algeria in second empire France -- Epilogue: the recurrence of empire and landscape.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Explores visual culture and the social history of art through an analysis of French images of nineteenth-century Algeria"--Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780271034430 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0271034432 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Landscapes in art.
Art Political aspects.
Art, French 19th century.
Art and society Algeria History 19th century.
Paysages dans l'art.
Art Aspect politique.
Art français 19e siècle.
Art et société Algérie Histoire 19e siècle.
political art.
Art and society.
Art, French.
Algerien
Kolonialismus
Kunst
Landschaft
Kunst Motiv Algerien.
Algeria In art.
Algeria.
Frankreich
Algerien Frankreich Geschichte 19. Jh.
Frankreich Algerien Geschichte 19. Jh.
Franzosen Algerien Geschichte 19. Jh.
Algerien Motiv Kunst.
Algerien (Motiv)

Form/genre:

Art.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 267339
Call No.: BIB 199348
Status: Available