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Are there intrinsic and unique ways of representing the "visual atmospherics" of the Caribbean? Might phenomenological studies of embodied perception offer insight into distinct forms of Caribbean visuality? How would contrapuntal interpretations of colonial archives result in a decolonizing art history? What are the larger stakes of these ways of reading Caribbean visual cultures, and what might they leave unseen? This article points to the need to radically interrogate and historically situate the object of art historical study in the region.

Some critics contend that the visual language of abstraction or conceptual art cannot translate "Caribbeanness." This essay considers the work of several contemporary Caribbean artists who highlight how the "picturesque" paintings so favored by detractors were historically constructed to erase the multiple realities and visual imaginaries of the islands.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Reprint Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Work of Vision in the Age of European Empires -- Section I: The Imperial Optic -- Introduction -- PART 1: EMPIRES OF THE PALETTE -- CHAPTER 1. The Walls of Images -- CHAPTER 2. Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science -- CHAPTER 3. Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette -- CHAPTER 4. Colonial Panaromania -- PART 2: THE MASS-PRINTED IMPERIUM -- CHAPTER 5. Objects of Knowledge: Oceanic Artifacts in European Engravings -- CHAPTER 6. Excess in the City? The Consumption of Imported Prints in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1780-c. 1795 -- CHAPTER 7. Advertising and the Optics of Colonial Power at the Fin de Siècle -- PART 3: MAPPING, CLAIMING, RECLAIMING -- CHAPTER 8. Mapping Plus Ultra: Cartography, Space, and Hispanic Modernity -- CHAPTER 9. Mapping an Exotic World: The Global Project of Dutch Cartography, circa 1700 -- CHAPTER 10. Visual Regimes of Colonization: European and Aboriginal Seeing in Australia -- PART 4: THE IMPERIAL LENS -- CHAPTER 11. The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer-Era China (1900-1901), Making Civilization -- CHAPTER 12. Colonial Theaters of Proof: Representation and Laughter in 1930s Rockefeller Foundation Hygiene Cinema in Java -- CHAPTER 13. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema -- Section II: Postcolonial Looking -- Introduction -- PART 5: SUBALTERN SEEING: AN OVERLAP OF COMPLEXITIES -- CHAPTER 14. Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse -- CHAPTER 15. Maps, Mother/Goddesses, and Martyrdom in Modern India -- CHAPTER 16. Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism -- CHAPTER 17. "I Am Rendered Speechless by Your Idea of Beauty": The Picturesque in History and Art in the Postcolony -- CHAPTER 18. Fanon, Algeria, and the Cinema: The Politics of Identification -- PART 6: REGARDING AND RECONSTITUTING EUROPE -- CHAPTER 19. Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection -- CHAPTER 20. Picasso, Africa, and the Schemata of Difference -- CHAPTER 21. Double Dutch and the Culture Game -- Conclusion: A Parting Glance: Empire and Visuality -- Contributors -- Index