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Art in the Time of Colony (Paperback)
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Art in the Time of Colony (Paperback)
Series: Empire and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-2000
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It is often assumed that the verbal and visual languages of
Indigenous people had little influence upon the classification of
scientific, legal, and artistic objects in the metropolises and
museums of nineteenth-century colonial powers. However colonized
locals did more than merely collect material for interested
colonizers. In developing the concept of anachronism for the
analysis of colonial material this book writes the complex
biographies for five key objects that exemplify, embody, and
refract the tensions of nineteenth-century history. Through an
analysis of particular language notations and drawings hidden in
colonial documents and a reexamination of cross-cultural
communication, the book writes biographies for five objects that
exemplify the tensions of nineteenth-century history. The author
also draws on fieldwork done in communities today, such as the
group of Koorie women whose re-enactments of tradition illustrate
the first chapter's potted history of indigenous mediums and
debates. The second case study explores British colonial history
through the biography of the proclamation boards produced under
George Arthur (1784-1854), Governor of British Honduras, Tasmania,
British Columbia, and India. The third case study looks at the maps
of the German explorer of indigenous taxonomy Wilhelm von
Blandowski (1822-1878), and the fourth looks at a multi-authored
encyclopaedia in which Blandowski had taken into account indigenous
knowledge such as that in the work of Kwat-Kwat artist Yakaduna,
whose hundreds of drawings (1862-1901) are the material basis for
the fifth and final case study. Through these three characters'
histories Art in the Time of Colony demonstrates the political
importance of material culture by using objects to revisit the
much-contested nineteenth-century colonial period, in which the
colonial nations as a cultural and legal-political system were
brought into being.
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