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Author:

Zarobell, John.

Title:

Empire of landscape : space and ideology in French colonial Algeria / John Zarobell.

Publisher:

Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xv, 196 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Algeria--In art.
Landscapes in art.
Art--Political aspects.
Art, French--19th century.
Art and society--Algeria--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-192) and index.

Contents:

Jean-Charles Langlois' Panorama of Algiers (1833) and the prospective colonial landscape -- Algeria at the Museum of French history -- Illustrated travelogues and imperial tourism: the Journal de l'expédition des Portes de Fer -- Eugène Fromentin and Laghouat: artistic and colonial frontiers -- Beyond landscape imagery: the photographic seizure of the colonial landscape -- Abstracting space: remaking the landscape of colonial Algeria in second empire France -- Epilogue: the recurrence of empire and landscape.

Summary:

"Explores visual culture and the social history of art through an analysis of French images of nineteenth-century Algeria"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0271034432 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780271034430 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)318534291

LCCN:

2009014137

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)