The Routledge Companion to Art and Challenges to Empire

Introduction: Instability and Resistance: Collaging Empire and its Challenges

Emily C. Burns and Alice M. Rudy Price

Part I: What Breaks Down the Rock: Fissures and Eruptions

1. The Art of Returning Home: Lars Hætta’s Miniature Duodji

Monica Grini

2. Art and Identity Caught Between Two Powers: How Dante’s Image Became a Symbol of Colonial Resistance in Malta

Nikki Petroni

3. The Uncertainties of Empire: Horace Vernet in Algeria, 1833

Jennifer Sessions

4. Alphonse de Lamartine, the Haitian Revolution and Imperialism: The Contingencies of France’s Empire in Lamartine’s Toussaint Louverture

Klaas Tindemans

5. Pablita Velarde: Extractive Economies of Empire and Indigenous Resistance

Kristen B. Dorsey

6. Prefabricated Promises: The Te Pahi House

Deirdre Brown and Stacy Vallis

7. The Art of Empire: Amrita Sher-Gil’s Two Girls (1939)

Rakhee Balaram

Part II: The Detritus: Layers of Empire

8. The Fabric of Empires: Delacroix, Trade, and the Women of Algiers

Jennifer W. Olmsted

9. Ivan Aivazovsky’s Imperial Sublime: The Politics and Aesthetics of Romantic Landscape Painting in the Age of Empire 

Maria Taroutina

10. Race and the Problem of Impressionist Skin

Allison Deutsch

11. Unity in Diversity: The Austro-Hungarian Art and Art-Industry Exhibition 1899-1900 in St. Petersburg

Anastasia Sabinina

12. Her Works: Chinese Embroidery and Australian Art Needlework at the First Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work in 1907

Doris Sung

13. New Displays in the Old Capital: The Architecture of Bursa Expositions in the Turn-of-the-Century Ottoman Empire

Semra Horuz

Part III: Human Impact on Sediment: Afterimages

14. What’s In a Photo? Frederick Douglass and Ram Singh II, Maharaj of Jaipur. Or: Lateral Art History and The Postindian Trickster, An Experiment in Method.

Renate Dohmen

15. Backdrops as Middle Ground: Photographic Portraiture and the Sites of Native American Resistance

Erin Pauwels

16. Public Shared Places and Private Absent Divides. Identity and Space of Colonial Urbanism Under Portuguese, French, and Danish Rules: Diu, Pondicherry and Tranquebar

Nuno Grancho

17. Art, Agriculture and Colonialism – Revisiting 19^th-Century Danish Landscape Painting in Museums

Gry Hedin

18. Visualizing Colonial Dispossession: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Imperial Impressionism, and the Art of Empire

Elizabeth Heath

19. Drawing Made Easy: Akinọla Laṣekan and Colonial Art Education in Nigeria

Perrin M. Lathrop

20. Cultural Erasure: How Western Art Institutions Perpetuate Russian Imperialism

Lisa Korneichuk

21. Living Cultural Legacies: North American Indigenous Arts of the Northeast under Imperial Rule

Scott Manning Stevens

Biography

Emily C. Burns is Director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West and Associate Professor of Art History at University of Oklahoma.

Alice M. Rudy Price is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture and Thomas Jefferson University, College of Architecture and the Built Environment.