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Victorian Visions of War and Peace

Aesthetics, Sovereignty, and Violence in the British Empire

Author: Sean Willcock  

Victorian Visions of War and Peace
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A study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian period

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A study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian period

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A study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian period

In an era that saw the birth of photography (c. 1839) and the rise of the illustrated press (c. 1842), the British experience of their empire became increasingly defined by the processes and products of image-making.
 
Examining moments of military and diplomatic crisis, this book considers how artists and photographers operating "in the field" helped to define British visions of war and peace. The Victorians increasingly turned to visual spectacle to help them compose imperial sovereignty. The British Empire was thus rendered into a spectacle of "peace," from world’s fairs to staged diplomatic rituals. Yet this occurred against a backdrop of incessant colonial war—campaigns which, far from being ignored, were in fact unprecedentedly visible within the cultural forms of Victorian society. Visual media thus shaped the contours of imperial statecraft and established many of the aesthetic and ethical frames within which the colonial violence was confronted.

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“[A] fascinating, richly illustrated study. . . . Willcock’s nimble scholarship ranges well beyond the discipline of art history, and his absorbing analyses of the embodied encounters of image-making contribute to fields such as affect studies, critical archival studies, and citizenship studies.”—Katherine Judith Anderson, Victorian Studies

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About the Author

Sean Willcock is an Early Career Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London.

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Publisher
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Published
9th November 2021
Pages
256
ISBN
9781913107246

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