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Empires of Light - Vision, Visibility and Power in Colonial India (Hardcover)
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Empires of Light - Vision, Visibility and Power in Colonial India (Hardcover)
Series: Rethinking Art's Histories
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Light was central to the visual politics and imaginative
geographies of empire, even beyond its role as a symbol of
knowledge and progress in post-Enlightenment narratives. This book
describes how imperial mappings of geographical space in terms of
'cities of light' and 'hearts of darkness' coincided with the
industrialisation of light (in homes, streets, theatres) and its
instrumentalisation through new representative forms (photography,
film, magic lanterns, theatrical lighting). Cataloguing the
imperial vision in its engagement with colonial India, the book
evaluates responses by the celebrated Indian painter Ravi Varma
(1848-1906) to reveal the centrality of light in technologies of
vision, not merely as an ideological effect but as a material
presence that produces spaces and inscribes bodies. -- .
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