New book: De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire. Preliminary perspectives, edited by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (Routledge, 2021), https://bit.ly/3x31ai3 (ISBN 9781032006802. Also available in eBook).
“This book achieves the useful purpose of explaining how art influences historical understanding. Perceptions change over time, and one of the book’s strong points is its examination of the evolving assumptions of artists as well as political figures, including radicals who challenged the altruism of British expansion […] What the volume does above all is to relate the changing circumstances of the empire over time as portrayed by artists, photographers, and propagandists. It calls attention to the different ways in which painted, printed, and photographic evidence reflected the lives and cultures of the peoples of the empire as well as the British. Miniature drawings, battle paintings, and commemorative portraits in the eighteenth century gave way to newspaper drawings, newsreels, and advertisements in magazines such as Punch that celebrated British political and commercial rule across a quarter of the world.” Professor Wm. Roger Louis, Editor-in-chief of The Oxford History of the British Empire series.
Editor: Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes, Fellow and Tutor of Clare Hall, member of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, and visiting lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
Table of Contents
1. Preliminary Perspectives, Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
2. On Visual Rhetoric and British Imperial History, Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
3. Art and Illustration: Re-viewing Empire, Carol Jacobi
4. A Visual History of a Hidden Exploration of Mid-19th Century Tibet: the British Library’s Wise Collection, Diana Lange
5. Illustrating the Warriors of Empire, Philip John Hatfield
6. Selling British "Empire-Consciousness": Imperial Rhetoric and Advertising Poetics, Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
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