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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zarobell, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010.
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Table of 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.