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EmpirEs of Vision Objects/Histories Critical Perspectives on Art, Material Culture, and Representation A sEriEs EditEd by nicholAs thomAs Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation. Empires of Vision A rEAdEr Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy, editors dukE uniVErsity prEss Durham and London 2014 © 2014 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper ♾ Designed by Amy Ruth Buchanan Typeset in Carter & Cone Galliard by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging- in Publication Data Empires of vision : a reader / Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy, eds. pages cm — (Objects/histories) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8223-5436-9 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-8223-5448-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Imperialism. 2. Postcolonialism. 3. Visual anthropology. I. Jay, Martin, 1944– II. Ramaswamy, Sumathi. III. Series: Objects/histories. jc359.E4625 2014 325′.3—dc23 2013025462 contEnts ix Illustrations xi Reprint Acknowledgments xv Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Work of Vision in the Age of European Empires, Sumathi Ramaswamy Section I: The Imperial Optic Introduction, Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy 25 pArt 1: EmpirEs of thE pAlEttE 47 chAptEr 1. The Walls of Images, Serge Gruzinski 64 chAptEr 2. Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth- Century Colonial Science, Daniela Bleichmar 91 chAptEr 3. Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette, Jordanna Bailkin 111 chAptEr 4. Colonial Panaromania, Roger Benjamin pArt 2: thE mAss- printEd impErium 141 chAptEr 5. Objects of Knowledge: Oceanic Artifacts in European Engravings, Nicholas Thomas 159 chAptEr 6. Excess in the City? The Consumption of Imported Prints in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1780–c. 1795, Natasha Eaton 189 chAptEr 7. Advertising and the Optics of Colonial Power at the Fin de Siècle, David Ciarlo pArt 3: mApping, clAiming, rEclAiming 211 chAptEr 8. Mapping Plus Ultra: Cartography, Space, and Hispanic Modernity, Ricardo Padrón 246 chAptEr 9. Mapping an Exotic World: The Global Project of Dutch Cartography, circa 1700, Benjamin Schmidt 267 chAptEr 10. Visual Regimes of Colonization: European and Aboriginal Seeing in Australia, Terry Smith pArt 4: thE impEriAl lEns 283 chAptEr 11. The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer- Era China (1900–1901), Making Civilization, James L. Hevia 315 chAptEr 12. Colonial Theaters of Proof: Representation and Laughter in 1930s Rockefeller Foundation Hygiene Cinema in Java, Eric A. Stein 346 chAptEr 13. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema, Brian Larkin Section II: Postcolonial Looking Introduction, Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy 377 pArt 5: subAltErn sEEing: An oVErlAp of complExitiEs 395 chAptEr 14. Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse, Zeynep Çelik 415 chAptEr 15. Maps, Mother/Goddesses, and Martyrdom in Modern India, Sumathi Ramaswamy 450 chAptEr 16. Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism, Christopher Pinney 471 chAptEr 17. “I Am Rendered Speechless by Your Idea of Beauty”: The Picturesque in History and Art in the Postcolony, Krista A. Thompson 503 chAptEr 18. Fanon, Algeria, and the Cinema: The Politics of Identification, Robert Stam pArt 6: rEgArding And rEconstituting EuropE 539 chAptEr 19. Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection, Christopher Pinney 566 chAptEr 20. Picasso, Africa, and the Schemata of Difference, Simon Gikandi 594 chAptEr 21. Double Dutch and the Culture Game, Olu Oguibe 609 Conclusion: A Parting Glance: Empire and Visuality, Martin Jay 621 Contributors 629 Index illustrAtions 1.1 St. Gregory’s Mass, Cholula Convent, Mexico City 58 2.1–2.4 Centropogon cornutus (Campanulaceae family) 78 2.5–2.8 Bomarea frondea (Amaryllidaceae family) 81 2.9 Gustavia augusta (Lecythidaceae family) 84 4.1 Louis Tinayre, The Panorama of Madagascar (Panorama de Madagascar), Paris, 1900 117 4.2 Moving Stereorama, or Poème de la Mer, Palais des Attractions algériennes, Paris, 1900 119 4.3 Javanese Dancers with Louis Dumoulin’s Painted View of Angkor Wat 121 5.1 Various Articles of Nootka Sound, Various Articles of the Sandwich Islands 146 5.2 The Landing at Middleburgh, One of the Friendly Isles 149 7.1 Trademark registration for Kiautschau Cookies 194 7.2 Advertisement for Agfa photography materials 195 7.3 1912 trademark registration by Reinhold Tetzer for ink 199 7.4 1914 trademark registration by Fa. L Wolff for cigars 201 8.1 Mappaemundi from Etymologia of Saint Isidore of Seville 213 8.2 Mappaemundi from Ptolemy’s Geographia 214 8.3 The Indies, the North Atlantic, and Western Europe from Pedro de Medina’s Arte de navegar 234 8.4 Detail from planisphere, Diego Ribeiro 236 9.1 Jacob van Campen, Triumph, with Treasures of the Indies 255 9.2 Jan van Kessel, Americque 257 9.3 Title page illustration in Petrus Nylandt, Het schouw- toneel der aertsche schepselen 261
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