Images of the tropics Environment and visual culture in colonial Indonesia
Images of the Tropics critically examines Dutch colonial culture in the Netherlands Indies through the prism of landscape art. Susie Protschky contends that visual representations of nature and landscape were core elements of how Europeans understood the tropics, justified their territorial claims i...
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| Format: | eBook Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden, Netherlands
KITLV Press
2011
BRILL Brill |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Series: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |
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| ISBN: | 9789067183680, 9067183687 |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro -- Images of the tropics -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION Environment and visual culture in theNetherlands Indies -- CHAPTER ONE Historicizing colonialism The legacy of images made during the East India Company period in Dutch ways of seeing -- CHAPTER TWO Narratives of expansion Colonial landscape images and empire building -- CHAPTER THREE Naturalizing conquest Rural idylls in colonial painting -- CHAPTER FOUR Articles of faith Religion, fear and fantasy in Indies landscapes -- CHAPTER FIVE Seductions of the tropics Race, class and gender in colonial images of nature and landscape -- CONCLUSIONS AND EPILOGUE Landscape, visual culture and colonial history -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- LIST OF FIGURES -- INDEX