Exchange: Art for Postcolonial Critique

Part of: Empires and Colonialism (27 resources )
|

Copyright

Creative Commons by-nc-sa

Created by

David M Choberka

Last Updated

January 5, 2021 4:28 p.m.

27 Items in this Learning Collection

European Primitivisms

Four male figures face each other, one in a hat on the left and three on the right facing him. The figure in the center has one hand raised to his chest. The two men on the right are looking at the man in the center.

Resource with 53 media

British Empire

Façade of an Egyptian temple structure in a state of partial ruin.

Resource with 75 media

American Orientalist art at the turn of the 20th century

Resource with 5 media

Art for Postcolonial Critique

Resource with 46 media

Art of the Mughal Empire

The painting is part of a manuscript page. The painting occupies the left side of the page while the text occupies the panel on the right. The painting features Devi in the foreground who receives a demon warrior. Devi holds a white trident in one of her four arms while another arm holds a cup. She sits in front of a domed white marble structure, facing the demon warrior, who has a sword and bow and arrow.

Resource with 99 media

Before 1492

Resource with 484 media

Politics, and Social Reform in the US, 1901-1950

Resource with 234 media

Cowboys and Cowboy Art

A black and white phot of two men dressed in a Western style with a tent. One man is standing in front of the tent, while the other is sitting on a rolled up canvs in front of the tent.

Resource with 41 media

Early Modern Atlantic World

Goldweights are small objects cast from brass used to weigh out quantities of gold and gold dust. They are cast using a lost-wax casting technique, wherein wax is sculpted into the desired shape and a mold is pressed around the wax model. Then, the mold is heated and the wax drained out, leaving a void in the shape of the original wax model. Liquid brass is poured into the mold and allowed to set before the caster cracks the mold open and retrieves the finished goldweight.

Resource with 35 media

Egypt in 19th Century Photography

Egyptian temple decorated with carved motifs seen from a slight oblique angle.

Resource with 22 media

Enrique Chagoya: Flipping Europe on its Head

Resource with 4 media

Italy in 19th-Century Photography

Resource with 81 media

Japan Pax Tokugawa 1600-1868

This woodwork depicts Ebisu, the god of prosperity and especially associated with fishermen. Here he carries a large sea bream or red snapper symbolizing good fortune.

Resource with 490 media

Latin American Revolutions and Civil Wars

Resource with 15 media

Manchu, Qing Dynasty

A round porcelain vase-shaped snuff bottle with blue underglaze. Painted on the snuff bottle is a design of a Manchu bannermen on horses in a landscape.

Resource with 86 media

Manifest Destiny and the American West

Resource with 76 media

Medieval Mediterranean

This large bronze faucet features a peacock spigot and a lion-headed spout.

Resource with 29 media

Era of the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican Muralist Movement

Resource with 83 media

Orientalism

Resource with 57 media

Postcolonial Art

Resource with 31 media

Postcolonial Studies

Collection with 10 items

Pre-Columbian Central & South America

Resource with 24 media

Religious Encounters in the New World

Resource with 30 media

Representations and Misrepresentations of Indigenous America

Resource with 65 media

Samurai

There is a warrior monk in the middle of the page holding black armor above his head, getting ready to toss it. There are a couple lines of writing above his head and a signature and two seals in the bottom right corner of the hanging scroll.

Resource with 83 media

Victorian Studies

Resource with 77 media

Human Rights

Resource with 152 media

People on the Move - Migration, Displacement, Refugees

Copyright

Creative Commons by-nc-sa

Created by

David M Choberka

Last Updated

January 5, 2021 4:28 p.m.

18 Items in this Learning Collection

Immigration, Migration, and Displacement

Resource with 94 media

Art for Postcolonial Critique

Resource with 46 media

Borders of Identity in North America

Photographed from atop a high ridge, this photograph depicts a view looking down into a winding desert canyon.

Resource with 87 media

British Empire

Resource with 75 media

Politics, and Social Reform in the US, 1901-1950

Resource with 234 media

Cowboys and Cowboy Art

Resource with 41 media

Early Modern Atlantic World

Resource with 35 media

Enrique Chagoya: Flipping Europe on its Head

Resource with 4 media

European Primitivisms

Resource with 53 media

Exiles of the Spanish Civil War

Resource with 26 media

Latin American Revolutions and Civil Wars

Resource with 15 media

Manifest Destiny and the American West

Resource with 76 media

Era of the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican Muralist Movement

Resource with 83 media

Orientalism

Resource with 57 media

Postcolonial Art

Resource with 31 media

Postcolonial Studies

Collection with 10 items

Religious Encounters in the New World

Resource with 30 media

Human Rights

Resource with 152 media

Copyright

Creative Commons by-nc-sa

Created by

David M Choberka

Last Updated

January 5, 2021 4:28 p.m.

10 Items in this Learning Collection

Art for Postcolonial Critique

Resource with 46 media

Enrique Chagoya: Flipping Europe on its Head

Resource with 4 media

European Primitivisms

Resource with 53 media

Latin American Revolutions and Civil Wars

Resource with 15 media

Manifest Destiny and the American West

Resource with 76 media

Era of the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican Muralist Movement

Resource with 83 media

Orientalism

Resource with 57 media

Postcolonial Art

Resource with 31 media

Religious Encounters in the New World

Resource with 30 media

Human Rights

Resource with 152 media

Art for Postcolonial Critique

Currier & Ives
The Wonderful Albino Family./Rudolph Lucasie, Wife and Children, from Madagascar./They have pure White Skin, Silken White Hair and Pink Eyes!!/Have been exhibited at Barnum's Museum, N.Y. for Three Years.
color lithograph on paper
12 ½ in x 8 ⅞ in (31.75 cm x 22.54 cm);17 ⅝ in x 13 11/16 in (44.77 cm x 34.77 cm);18 1/16 in x 22 1/16 in (45.88 cm x 56.04 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Colton Storm

View Object Record

This painting shows a scene set in a courtyard with high white walls that is open to the sky. Beyond the wall there is flowering vegetation, tall trees and a tower with a balustrade with keyhole shaped openings. There are two clay pots resting on top of the wall and an oriental style carpet hanging over one side. Within this courtyard, there are three women who are looking at two small leopards that wear metal chains and stand in a keyhole shaped opening of the far right wall. The women, grouped together on the far left side, are wearing 19th century Moroccan dress, including richly embroidered, garments, headscarves and shoes. There is bright sunlight streaming into the room which creates shadows on the walls and floor.

Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant
Courtyard in the Sultan's Palace
oil on panel
3 ft. 11 3/8 in. x 31 1/8 in. (120.33 x 79.06 cm);4 ft. 8 1/4 in. x 40 1/4 in. x 2 in. (142.88 x 102.24 x 5.08 cm)
Bequest of Henry C. Lewis

View Object Record

Jean Paul Slusser
Homage to Gauguin
oil on carved panel
23 1/4 x 42 in. (59 x 106.6 cm);23 1/4 x 41 7/8 x 1 5/16 in. (58.9 x 106.36 x 3.18 cm)
Gift of Robert and Elizabeth Slusser

View Object Record

This painting shows a train wagon filled with people in the foreground, and many train wagons following in the background. The train wagon and the people in it are being attacked by people on horses with tribal headwears and using weapons such as bows and arrows and axes. People in the train wagon are of Caucasion decent and have rifles pointed at those who seem to be Native Americans.

Charles Ferdinand Wimar
The Attack on an Emigrant Train
oil on canvas
55 1/16 in x 79 1/16 in (139.86 cm x 200.82 cm);64 ¼ in x 88 in x 3 ½ in (163.19 cm x 223.52 cm x 8.89 cm)
Bequest of Henry C. Lewis

View Object Record

Wood-carved, standing male figure 40 inches in height. Its shoulders and torso are impaled with iron blades, nails and fragments. The torso is long, arms at side are bent at elbow and hands rest on lower abdomen. The right wrist wears a bracelet with attachments. The legs are truncated, with twisted metal anklet on right foot. The face is naturalistic, the mouth slightly open, the nose long and narrow with slightly flared nostrils. Eyes are almond shaped, may have had inlay that is now gone. The top of the head shows a tiered, "layer cake like" coiffure. The figure has a long and deep crack down the entire length of its left side, from top of the head to the left ankle.

Vili (Kongo)
Power Figure
wood, iron nails, blades and fragments, and fiber cord
40 3/4 in x 13 3/4 in x 10 1/16 in (103.5 cm x 35 cm x 25.5 cm);40 3/4 in x 13 3/4 in x 10 1/16 in (103.5 cm x 35 cm x 25.5 cm)
Gift of Candis and Helmut Stern

View Object Record

A full-length portrait of a standing male in a lanscape setting. To the left of the composition stands a pair of birches near the figure; to the right, the landscape opens up to a distant expanse of trees and hills. The man stands facing to the right but looking out of the canvas to the left. He holds a bow and quiver of arrows; a black hat with a feather is on the ground at his feet. He is dressed in tan pants and waistcoat with a green frock coat and black boots.

John Hoppner
Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Bt. of Acton Park, Wrexham, Denbighshire
oil on canvas
105 1/2 in x 69 1/2 in x 5 in (267.97 cm x 176.53 cm x 12.7 cm);105 1/2 in x 69 1/2 in x 5 in (267.97 cm x 176.53 cm x 12.7 cm);94 in x 58 1/2 in (238.76 cm x 148.59 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund

View Object Record

A fragment of a stucco relief sculpture.

Artist Unknown, Gandhara (Ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)
Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, in dhyana mudra, attended by Indra
stucco relief with traces of polychromy
10 1/4 in. x 9 5/8 in. x 3 3/4 in. ( 26 cm x 24.5 cm x 9.5 cm )
Museum purchase for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection

View Object Record

A photograph of an aged man sitting and looking straight into the camera. He holds a large feather in his lap, his costume adorned with embroidery. He wears a large feather headdress on his head. He appears to be sitting in an enclosed area, with patterned cloths on the floor and hanging around him.

Edward S. Curtis
An Old Man of Waiyám
photogravure on paper
12 1/2 in x 9 7/16 in (31.75 cm x 23.97 cm);14 3/8 in x 19 7/16 in (36.51 cm x 49.37 cm)
Gift of Stephen M. Taylor

View Object Record

This is a photograph of a horse and rider. Both wear patterned, geometric costume and are framed by an wooded landscape.

Edward S. Curtis
Flathead Horse Trappings
photogravure on paper
9 1/4 in x 12 3/8 in (23.5 cm x 31.5 cm);14 3/8 in x 19 7/16 in (36.5 cm x 49.3 cm)
Gift of Stephen M. Taylor

View Object Record

This is a portrait of a baby in a cradleboard, taken against a dark backdrop. The baby is tied into the carrying device, which is decorated with floral motifs. A patterned blanket is draped around the base of the cradleboard.

Edward S. Curtis
Nez Percé Babe
photogravure on paper
21 7/16 in x 17 5/16 in (54.5 cm x 44 cm);24 1/8 in x 20 1/8 in (61.28 cm x 51.12 cm)
Gift of Stephen M. Taylor

View Object Record

This is a portrait of two young boys. They stand inside a tipi or tent, wearing large headdresses and beadwork around their shoulders. The interior of the space is filled with patterned blankets and cloths.

Edward S. Curtis
Sons of a Yakima Chief
photogravure on paper
9 in x 12 1/4 in (22.8 cm x 31.2 cm);19 7/16 in x 14 3/8 in (49.3 cm x 36.5 cm);14 3/8 in x 19 7/16 in (36.5 cm x 49.3 cm)
Gift of Stephen M. Taylor

View Object Record

Laton Alton Huffman
Young Crow Groom, Fort Keogh
colotype print on paper
17 15/16 in x 10 ½ in (45.56 cm x 26.67 cm);28 ⅛ in x 22 ⅛ in (71.44 cm x 56.2 cm)
Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Michael Fauman

View Object Record

Next 12