Emerging in the realm of popular entertainment, Jean-Charles
Langlois's Panorama of Algiers (1833) drew an audience in much the
same way that the arcades drew consumers. Just as the consumption
of material goods never fully satiates the consumer, the landscape
of Algiers, as represented in Langlois's panorama, kept the French
coming back for more. This monumental painting--the result of
Colonel Langlois's involvement in the 1830 siege of
Algiers--offered a French audience a spectacle of the furthest
reaches of the French empire. To witness Langlois's paintings and
other representations of colonial landscapes that followed was to
perceive the endless diversity of the ever-expanding French
colonies.
Marrying an investigation of the imperial context with close
analysis of French images of nineteenth-century Algiers, Empire of
Landscape offers a new position on visual culture and the social
history of art. John Zarobell not only considers the way paintings,
photographs, prints, maps, and panoramas of the unpopulated
Algerian landscape were tied to the social and political
developments of their time, but also argues that the images
themselves produced historical transformations of place, space, and
perception that continue to affect us today. Empire of Landscape
offers a unique basis for understanding the intersections among
colonialism and the colonized, geography, place, politics, and the
resonating propagandistic impact that images of landscape had in
the nineteenth-century French colonial world and beyond.
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