The Routledge Companion to Art and the Formation of Empire

Introduction: Solidifying as Rock: Enmeshed Layers of Empire

Emily C. Burns and Alice M. Rudy Price

Part I: Sediment: The Dynamic Elements of Place

1. Colonial Complicities Beyond the Empire. Czechoslovakia Inbetween Worlds and World’s Fairs

Marta Filipová

2. “The Kingdom Grown Out of a Little Boy’s Garden”: Dole Pineapples and Hawaiian Occupation in U.S. Art and Visual Culture

Shana Klein

3. Imperialism for the Million: Mass-market Glasshouses and the Botanical Arts of Empire

Emily E. Mangione

4. Meditating on Aivazovsky’s Black Sea: Representing Russian Imperial Expansion

Fatma Coşkuner

5. Beyond European Palettes: The Overlooked Contributions of Indigenized Artists in the Historiography of Painting in Mexico

Emmanuel Ortega

6. Beyond the Modernist Canon of Involuntary Aesthetic Colonization: Aina Onabolu's Mimicry as Rejection of Colonial Anti-modernity 1900-1930

Clement E. Akpang

7. Rambles in Natchez: John James Audubon and Colonial Aesthetics on the Mississippi Frontier (1820-1850)

Thomas Busciglio-Ritter

Part II: What Moves the Sediment: Exchange and Conflict

8. The Empire Looks Back: Derivativeness in Nineteenth-century Brazilian Art

Rafael Cardoso

9. “Southern Fragrance” of the Japanese Empire: Visualizing Botany in Colonial Taiwan

Chinghsin Wu

10. How to Interpret John B. Flannagan Through Empire

Roberta K. Tarbell 

11. Face-Off: A Russian Prince at the Courts of India

John Webley

12. Orientalism, Arts, and Scottish Identity: David Roberts (1796-1864) and David Wilkie (1785-1841) in the Ottoman Levant

Mohammad Sakhnini 

13. Mapping the British Railways in Western Anatolia: From a Speculative to an Imperial Vision

Alexandra Solovyev

14. Manufacturing Empire: The Visual and Material Culture of Chicago’s Marquette Building

Meagan Anderson Evans 

15. The Italian Fascist Vision for the “World of Tomorrow” at the New York 1939 World’s Fair

Lucia Colombari

Part III: What Solidifies the Sediment into Rock: Forces of Homogenization (or Consolidation)

16. Maternal Orientalism: Women’s Work and the Photographs of Jessie Tarbox Beals at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Erin Hyde Nolan and Emily Voelker

17. ''Self-colonization' as a Cultural Strategy: Konstantin Korovin’s Image of Russian Northern Peripheries

Giulia Gelmi

18. Adapting Empire for the Buying Public: The Algerian Conquest and a Printed Adaptation of Gros’s Bonaparte Visiting the Plaguehouse at Jaffa

Alissa Adams

19. Surveying for Empire: Arthur Schott’s Boundary Pictures and the Slavery Extension Controversy

Alexis Monroe

20. Whose American South? Winslow Homer and The Cuban Question

Ramey Mize

21. Hegemony, Hierarchy, and Struggle in Korean Colonial Art: The Activities and Artworks of Shinichi Yamada

Minjong Shin

Biography

Emily C. Burns is Director, 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.