Images of the Tropics: Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia

Sampul Depan
BRILL, 1 Jan 2011 - 184 halaman
Images of the Tropics critically examines Dutch colonial culture in the Netherlands Indies through the prism of landscape art. Susie Protschky contends that visual representations of nature and landscape were core elements of how Europeans understood the tropics, justified their territorial claims in the region, and understood their place both in imperial Europe and in colonized Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book thus makes a significant contribution to studies of empire, art and environment, as well as to histories of Indonesia and Europe.
Surveying a rich visual culture developed over a period of some 350 years of Dutch colonial engagement with Indonesia Susie Protschky demonstrates how views of the archipelago’s environment were far from simple topographical souvenirs. Rather, this book reveals how images of the tropics visually articulated colonial attempts to legitimize and historicize what were in fact continually changing and contested claims to Dutch territorial sovereignty in the Indies. Further, colonial images of nature were routinely inflected with diverse cultural preoccupations, among them the constitution of gender, class and racial boundaries in Indies society; the tenor of sexual mores in the tropics; and the political role of religion in the archipelago. Landscape art thus indexed colonial views on a range of pressing social and political concerns.
 

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INTRODUCTION Environment and visual culture in theNetherlands Indies
9
CHAPTER ONE Historicizing colonialism The legacy of images made during the East India Company period in Dutch ways of seeing
23
CHAPTER TWO Narratives of expansion Colonial landscape images and empire building
51
CHAPTER THREE Naturalizing conquest Rural idylls in colonial painting
73
CHAPTER FOUR Articles of faith Religion fear and fantasy in Indies landscapes
103
CHAPTER FIVE Seductions of the tropics Race class and gender in colonial images of nature and landscape
127
CONCLUSIONS AND EPILOGUE Landscape visual culture and colonial history
145
BIBLIOGRAPHY
155
LIST OF FIGURES
171
INDEX
175
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