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

Author: John Zarobell
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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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Genre/Form: In art
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Zarobell, John.
Empire of landscape.
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010
(OCoLC)722071603
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John Zarobell
ISBN: 9780271034430 0271034432
OCLC Number: 318534291
Description: xv, 196 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.
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.
Responsibility: John Zarobell.

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Emerging in the realm of popular entertainment, Langlois' "Panorama of Algiers" (1833) drew an audience in much the same way that the arcades drew consumers. Presenting an analysis of French images of  Read more...

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"This is an original book, at times brilliant, that makes an important contribution to the field." - David O'Brien, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"

 
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