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COLONIAL ART - Coggle Diagram
COLONIAL ART
british colo cult
all areas of cult
multiplicity of forms
distorted rps° of race
brit public widely exposed to imperial imagery
mostly supportive of empiree
"art connected to empires + colonization"
promoted british empire
rpsted colo terr+ ppl
depicted colonizers in new environmT
what images did
colo° == "beneficial"
normalized controversial attitudes
range of views on non european people
shape brit idea on their place in world + non eur
16th to 18th c
gov propaganda = encourage emig
reports narrating life overseas
posters for purchase of food in colo
Australia
penal colo
gold rush 1850 boosted economy
Thomas Gill
series of sketch
incentives
give ppl selection of possible actvities
Communal + domestic life
influence of photography
Imperial Authority
Q. Vict "imperial matriarch"
coronation
view from side
1st monarch to be photographed
self assured
IMPERIAL EPHEMERA
"everyday objects produced at a particular time in history+ that were not meant to last very long"
culturally significant
coins, oats, tin boxes...
Maintaining imperial authority
Harry Payne ; 1884
sketches ; military artist
technology/ weapon crushing primitive
teach children wonders of colo°
Stanley in Africa magazine
Johan Zoffany
talent for dynamic scene
document social life in India
why study it
understand how attitudes towards colo° formed
see empire = complex entity
Canada
diff waves
Chinese ppl = railway
european farmers
britons ; eco+pop°
interwar period
1920s
Canada West "the new homeland"
abundance, idyllic, wheat, family life
x honest abt weather
Indigenous ruling class + leaders
Nobleman in Ceylon
paraphernalia
Anthropological interests
reminiscent of J.WHITE
romanticized primitive
Portraits of indigenous people
George Cruikshank ; comic almanack diary
caricature
racist
Southern Rhodesia