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Rebecca Peabody, Steven Nelson et Dominic Thomas, dir., Visualizing Empire. Africa, Europe, and the politics of representation, Getty Research Institute, 2021
Mercredi 6 janvier 2021
« An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France’s colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas of life in the empire.
By the end of World War I, having fortified its colonial holdings in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Asia, France had expanded its dominion to the four corners of the earth. This volume examines how an official French visual culture normalized the country’s colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects alike to racialized ideas of life in the empire. Essays analyze aspects of colonialism through investigations into the art, popular literature, material culture, film, and exhibitions that represented, celebrated, or were created for France’s colonies across the seas.
These studies draw from the rich documents and media—photographs, albums, postcards, maps, posters, advertisements, and children’s games—related to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century French empire that are held in the Getty Research Institute’s Association Connaissance de l’histoire de l’Afrique contemporaine (ACHAC) collections. ACHAC is a consortium of scholars and researchers devoted to exploring and promoting discussions of race, iconography, and the colonial and postcolonial periods of Africa and Europe. »
Rebecca Peabody, responsable des projets et des programmes de recherche au Getty Research Institute
Steven Nelson, doyen du Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts de la National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.) et professeur émérite d’histoire de l’art africain et africain-américain à l’Université de Californie (Los Angeles)
Dominic Thomas, directeur du département des langues européennes et des études transculturelles à l’Université de Californie (Los Angeles)
A écouter : Reevaluating French Colonialism through Visual Culture
Voir recension de John Zarobell, professeur d’études internationales à l’Université de San Francisco
Rebecca Peabody, responsable des projets et des programmes de recherche au Getty Research Institute
