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Empire and Culture: The French Experience, 1830-1940

By Martin Evans , Amanda Sackur

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
0333791819, 9780333791813, 9780230000681
LCC
JV1811 .E9 2004
Open Library ID
OL21112932M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
940 kB (962328 bytes)
Pages
224\226
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This volume explores how the idea of empire in France was expressed in film, photography, painting and monuments. It analyzes how the image of the universal, civilizing mission saturated French society during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular it examines how the subject peoples of the empire were represented in art and fiction. In this way, the authors underline that there was not just one single image of empire but many, ranging from the extreme right to the extreme left. The volume contains and in-depth consideration not just of the triumphalist images of empire but the oppositional ones, most notably the surrealists, which directly challenged the emergent colonial consensus.

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