Unseeing empire: photography, representation, South Asian America

"In Unseeing Empire Bakirathi Mani examines how empire continues to haunt South Asian American visual cultures. Weaving close readings of fine art together with archival research and ethnographic fieldwork at museums and galleries across South Asia and North America, Mani outlines the visual an...

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1. Verfasser: Mani, Bakirathi (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham ; London Duke University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:A camera obscura book
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Zusammenfassung:"In Unseeing Empire Bakirathi Mani examines how empire continues to haunt South Asian American visual cultures. Weaving close readings of fine art together with archival research and ethnographic fieldwork at museums and galleries across South Asia and North America, Mani outlines the visual and affective relationships between South Asian diasporic artists, their photographic work, and their viewers. She notes that the desire for South Asian Americans to see visual representations of themselves is rooted in the use of photography as a form of colonial documentation and surveillance. She examines fine art photography by South Asian diasporic artists who employ aesthetic strategies such as duplication and alteration that run counter to viewers' demands for greater visibility. These works fail to deliver on viewers' desires to see themselves, producing instead feelings of alienation, estrangement, and loss. These feelings, Mani contends, allow viewers to question their own visibility as South Asian Americans in US public culture and to reflect on their desires to be represented"--
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 245-259
Beschreibung:xv, 271 Seiten, 12 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen
ISBN:9781478009849
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