Artist and empire
Subtitle: facing Britain's imperial past
By: Alison Smith (Author, Editor, Writer of introduction), David Blayney Brown (Author, Editor), Carol Jacobi (Author, Editor), Caroline Corbeau-Parsons (Author), Gus Casely-Hayford (Contributor), Paul Gilroy, Tate Britain (Gallery) (Host institution)
Contributors: Tate Britain (Gallery)
Publisher: TATE
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781849763431; 9781849763592
Subjects: In art; Exhibitions; Colonial Art; British Art; Colonies; Colonies in art; Themes, motives
Description: "Here, leading scholars focus on how these artworks tell the vivid history of life under British rule in a survey that ranges from sixteenth-century colonialism through to the projection of Britain's imperial might in the late nineteenth century and its decline in the post-war era. Exploring how artists have represented and critiques the diverse places, people and events that constituted the Empire, this is a vital book on a subject of broad contemporary interest"--
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Tate Britain, London, 25 November 2015-10 April 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Paul Gilroy; title: Introduction : the museum of empire / Alison Smith; title: Mapping and marking / Daniel Blayney Brown; title: Imperial heroics / Alison Smith; title: Power dressing / Caroline Corbeau-Parsons; title: Face to face / Carol Jacobi; title: Out of empire / Carol Jacobi; title: Notes; title: Works not illustrated.