The portrait and the colonial imaginary: photography between France and Africa : 1900-1939

French colonisers of the Third Republic claimed not to oppress but to liberate, imagining they were spreading republican ideals to the colonies to make a Greater France. In this book Simon Dell explores the various roles played by portraiture in this colonial imaginary. Anyone interested in the hist...

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1. Verfasser: Dell, Simon 1969- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leuven (Belgium) Leuven University Press [2020]
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Zusammenfassung:French colonisers of the Third Republic claimed not to oppress but to liberate, imagining they were spreading republican ideals to the colonies to make a Greater France. In this book Simon Dell explores the various roles played by portraiture in this colonial imaginary. Anyone interested in the history of colonial Africa will have encountered innumerable portraits of African elites produced during the first half of the twentieth century, yet no book to date has focused on these ubiquitous images. Dell analyses the production and dissemination of such portraits and situates them in a complex and conflicted field of representations. Moving between European and African perspectives, the book blends history with art history to provide insights into the larger processes that were transforming the French metropole and colonies during the early twentieth century
Beschreibung:247 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:9789462702158

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