Title & Author:

Colonialism and the object : empire, material culture, and the museum / edited by Tim Barringer and Tom Flynn.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Description:

xi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Museum meanings

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index.
The South Kensington Museum and the colonial project / Tim Barringer -- Chinese material culture and British perceptions of China in the mid-nineteenth century / Catherine Pagani -- China in Britain: the imperial collections / Craig Clunas -- Colonial architecture, international exhibitions and official patronage of the Indian artisan: the case of a gateway from Gwalior in the Victoria and Albert Museum / Deborah Swallow -- Stylistic hybridity and colonial art and design education: a wooden carved screen by Ram Singh / Naazish Ata-Ullah -- Race, authenticity and colonialism: a 'mustice' silversmith in Philadelphia and St. Croix, 1783-1850 / Rachel E.C. Layton -- Domesticating Uzbeks: Central Asians in Soviet decorative art of the twenties and thirties / Karen Kettering -- Keys to the magic kingdom: the new transcultural collections of Bradford Art Galleries and Museums / Nima Poovaya-Smith -- Perspectives on Hinemihi: a Maori meeting house / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- Maori vision and the imperialist gaze / Ngapine Allen -- Gathering souls and objects: missionary collections / Jeanne Cannizzo -- Photography at the heart of darkness: Herbert Lang's Congo photographs (1909-15) / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Taming the tusk: the revival of chryselephantine sculpture in Belgium during the 1890s / Tom Flynn.

Summary:

Discusses the impact of colonial contact with other cultures on the material culture of both the colonized and the imperial nation. Fourteen contributions by scholars from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds include case studies of objects collected by or exhibited in the institutions of the British Empire as well as discussions of issues of racial identity across cultural barriers and the hybrid styles of objects which can emerge when cultures meet. They demonstrate that the intensive analysis of museum objects and their contexts can provide timely and substantive insights into issues of global importance. Contains many b&w illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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ISBN:

0415157757 (hardcover)
9780415157759 (hardcover)
0415157765 (pbk.)
9780415157766 (pbk.)
(pbk.)
0521475627
9780521475624
(hb)
0521475287
9780521475280

Subject:

Art, Colonial.
Art, Colonial Foreign influences.
Colonies Europe Relations.
Art colonial.
Art colonial Influence étrangère.
Colonies Relations Europe.
20.05 art in relation with other areas of culture: general.
Beeldende kunsten.
Kolonialisme.
Culturele invloeden.
Musea.
Art primitif Congrès.
Art colonial Congrès.
Colonies Relations Europe Congrès.
Europe Relations Colonies.
Europe
Koloniën.
Europe Relations Colonies Congrès.

Form/genre:

Congresses (form)

Added entries:

Barringer, T. J., editor.
Flynn, Tom, 1956- editor.
Museum meanings.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211414
Call No.: N5311 .C65 1998
Status: Available