Brown University Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: My thesis takes up Zarina Bhimji’s untitled series of ten large-format Polaroid photographs taken in 1989 at the Victoria and Albert Museum. While Bhimji is …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Xiao, Grace (creator); Shaffer, Holly (thesis advisor); Caplan, Lindsay (reader); Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Postcolonialism; Third World; African diaspora; Feminism; Contemporary art; Photography; South Asian diaspora; Bhimji, Zarina, 1963-; Victoria and Albert Museum; Art, British; Polaroid; Black Arts movement
Collection:: History of Art and Architecture; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This study is about topographical photography of nineteenth-century British India, and the critical interpretation of that imagery. From the mid-eighteenth century, British makers of topographical …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Stein, Nathaniel M (creator); Kriz, K (Director); Nickel, Douglas (Reader); Lukitsh, Joanne (Reader); Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: history of photography; British India; nineteenth-century India; visual cultures of British India; topographical representation; the sublime; colonial sublime; survey photography; postcolonial criticism; photography and the archive; colonial archive; art history; British Raj; British Empire; India Office; Alkazi Collection of Photography; Robert Gill (1804-1879); Sublime, The, in art; Great Britain. India Office; British Library; Yale Center for British Art; Victoria and Albert Museum
Collection:: History of Art and Architecture; Theses and Dissertations

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