The Routledge Companion to Art and Challenges to Empire

This companion analyzes interactions between the arts and global imperial relationships from around 1800 through the 20th century. By excavating layers and identifying legacies, the essays reveal inherent fractures in colonial perspectives. Tremendous multi-directional imperialisms and inter-imperial dialogues characterize the period, as do protests and anticolonial activity. How does the materializing of empire expose its logics of cultural superiority and its fault lines and instabilities? The