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"This book is the first to offer a synthetic account of art and US imperialism in the nineteenth century. Maggie M. Cao offers revisionist readings of history paintings of the colonial past, landscapes of polar expeditions and tropical tourism, still lifes of imported goods, and ethnographic portraiture. Revealing how the US empire was "hidden in plain sight" in the art of this period, Cao examines artists who both championed and expressed ambivalence toward the colonial project, and she connect
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- Author
- Maggie M. Cao
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226832418
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Art, Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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