Colonialism and the object : empire, material culture and the museum

Routledge

London, England, United Kingdom New York, United States

1998

0415157757
0415157765

Bib record

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.

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