Research Catalog

Title

Constructing race on the borders of Europe : ethnography, anthropology, and visual culture, 1850-1930 / edited by Marsha Morton and Barbara Larson.

Publication

• London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Morton, Marsha
• Larson, Barbara (Barbara Jean)

Description

ix, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps; 24 cm

Summary

"Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe investigates the visual imagery (in painting, photography, prints, film, and design) of race construction primarily in Scandinavia and the empires of Austro-Hungary, Germany, and Russia at a time when the disciplines of ethnography and anthropology were expanding and publications on race were debating competing theories of biological, geographic, linguistic, and cultural determinants. These regions, while on the periphery of continental Europe, largely marginalized in the scholarship of nineteenth-century art history, and ignored by Edward Said (Orientalism 1978), have been central locations for theorizing white identity and for containing diverse ethnic populations that have generated substantive ethnographic study and regional conflicts since the eighteenth century. This anthology explores art that engaged with ethnography and anthropology to shape visual representations of subordinate ethnic populations and material cultures, both indigenous (Roma, Sámi, Inuit, and Celts) and migrant or colonial (Muslims and Blacks), chiefly between 1850 and 1930, but extending into the early twenty-first century. The essays in this book contribute to postcolonial research by documenting colonial-style treatment of minority groups and by seeking to qualify binary systems through explorations of anomalies, complexities, and contradictions that emerge when seen from the perspective of the fine and applied arts. This book presents a range of different artistic voices that responded to ethnographic and anthropological information by producing images or objects that adopted, altered, or critiqued that information. The authors seek to uncover instances of connections and variability, to establish the fabricated nature of ethnic identity, and to challenge the certainties of racial categorization"--

Subject

• Art and anthropology > Scandinavia
• Art and anthropology > Europe, Eastern
• Art and anthropology > Soviet Union
• Ethnic groups in art
• Other (Philosophy) in art
• Art and anthropology
• Eastern Europe
• Scandinavia
• Soviet Union

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Marsha Morton -- From folk to a folk race : Carl Arbo and national romantic anthropology in Norway / Patricia G. Berman -- From "northern dweller" to "distinguished among his race": the transformation of the Nordic colonial subject, 1900-1935 / Bart Pushaw -- Decolonizing the archive: Pia Arke and Stories from Scoresbysund / Alison W. Chang -- Brigands and virtuous musicians : representations of Roma ("Gypsies") as Oriental other in the eastern part of the Habsburg Monarchy during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Robert Born and Dirk Suckow -- Leopold Carl Müller's scenes from Egyptian life: ethnography, race, and Orientalism in Habsburg Vienna / Marsha Morton -- A Hungarian treasure chest: the art colony at Gödöllő in critical perspective / Rebecca Houze -- The journey west: Gauguin, philology, and the Celts of Brittany / Barbara Larson -- In the beginning was the image: Russian ethnography and colonial photography in Turkestan, 1860s to 1870s / Margaret Dikovitskaya -- Children of the Narod : early Soviet children's books' racialization of childhood / Marie Gasper-Hulvat -- From sideshow to portrait: the ethnographic vision of Christian Schad / Kristin Schroeder -- Anthropological histories and techniques in Philip Scheffner's films / Priyanka Basu

Call Number

JQE 22-131

ISBN

• 9781350182325
• 135018232X

LCCN

2020045738

OCLC

1200832347

Title

Constructing race on the borders of Europe : ethnography, anthropology, and visual culture, 1850-1930 / edited by Marsha Morton and Barbara Larson.

Publisher

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Morton, Marsha, editor.

Larson, Barbara (Barbara Jean), editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Constructing race on the borders of Europe London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021 9781350182332 (DLC) 2020045739

Research Call Number

JQE 22-131