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Objects/Histories Series

25 primary works • 25 total works
Nicholas Thomas has conceived this series to cultivate studies of art formed during or as a result of cross-cultural encounters—colonial art, travel art, the art of diasporic peoples, and the art of indigenous peoples reflecting processes such as creolization or colonization. The series is broadly conceived; it is designed to accommodate a variety …
An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque
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4.25 · 16 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2006 · 7 editions
Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical para…

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    Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980
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    3.40     · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 7 editions
    Following India’s independence in 1947, Indian art…

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    Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities
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    4.42     · 52 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2007 · 7 editions
    In Alma Lopez’s digital print Lupe & Sirena in Lov…

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    Culture in the Marketplace: Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest
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    3.50     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 6 editions
    In the early twentieth century, a group of elite E…

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    Empires of Vision: A Reader
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    3.89     · 9 Ratings · published 2014 · 9 editions
    Empires of Vision brings together pieces by some o…

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    Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians
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    3.43     · 7 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2005 · 4 editions
    An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victori…

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    From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962
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    3.80     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2014 · 8 editions
    From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of…

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    Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art
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    3.63     · 19 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2007 · 6 editions
    Gods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the…

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    In Senghor's Shadow: Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960-1995
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    4.31     · 16 Ratings · published 2004 · 10 editions
    In Senghor’s Shadow is a unique study of modern ar…

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    Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature
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    4.04     · 23 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2007 · 6 editions
    Until now, the notion of a cross-cultural dialogue…

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    Mapping Modernisms: Art, Indigeneity, Colonialism
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    3.00     · 3 Ratings · 3 editions
    Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars workin…

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    Mimesis across Empires: Artworks and Networks in India, 1765-1860
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    4.17     · 6 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2013 · 3 editions
    In Mimesis Across Empires , Natasha Eaton examines…

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    Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-1960
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    4.10     · 10 Ratings · published 2006 · 7 editions
    Between 1940 and 1960, many Native American artist…

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    Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography
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    3.50     · 6 Ratings · published 2002 · 8 editions
    Until now, Orientalist art—exemplified by painting…

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    Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art
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    4.18     · 22 Ratings · published 2002 · 10 editions
    Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, o…

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    Photographies East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia
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    3.83     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 4 editions
    Introducing Photographies East , Rosalind C. Morri…

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    Photography's Other Histories
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    4.03     · 30 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2003 · 7 editions
    Moving the critical debate about photography away …

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    Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java
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    4.04     · 52 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2010 · 7 editions
    A young couple poses before a painted backdrop dep…

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    Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art under Occupation
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2016 · 5 editions
    In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle mod…

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    Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West - History of Tatooing
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    3.65     · 20 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2005 · 5 editions
    The history of tattooing is shrouded in controvers…

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    The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918
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    3.77     · 13 Ratings · published 2012 · 14 editions
    In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth…

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    The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands
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    3.43     · 7 Ratings · published 2013 · 5 editions
    The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic st…

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    The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890-1915
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    3.38     · 16 Ratings · published 2009 · 8 editions
    In the early twentieth century, Native American ba…

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    Treasured Possessions: Indigenous Interventions into Cultural and Intellectual Property
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · published 2013 · 6 editions
    What happens when ritual practitioners from a smal…

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    Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary
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    4.50     · 12 Ratings · published 2008 · 5 editions
    In Unsettled Visions , the activist, curator, and …

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