Victorian Visions of War and Peace: Aesthetics, Sovereignty, and Violence in the British Empire

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Sean Willcock

Victorian Visions of War and Peace

Aesthetics, Sovereignty, and Violence in the British Empire

Sean Willcock

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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
09 November 2021

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Photography & photographs; British & Irish history; Colonialism & imperialism; Politics & government

A study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian period

In an era that saw the birth of photography (c. 1839) and the rise of the illustrated press (c. 1842), the British experience of their empire became increasingly defined by the processes and products of image-making.

Examining moments of military and diplomatic crisis, this book considers how artists and photographers operating ""in the field"" helped to define British visions of war and peace. The Victorians increasingly turned to visual spectacle to help them compose imperial sovereignty. The British Empire was thus rendered into a spectacle of ""peace,"" from world’s fairs to staged diplomatic rituals. Yet this occurred against a backdrop of incessant colonial war—campaigns which, far from being ignored, were in fact unprecedentedly visible within the cultural forms of Victorian society. Visual media thus shaped the contours of imperial statecraft and established many of the aesthetic and ethical frames within which the colonial violence was confronted.

By: Sean Willcock
Imprint: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 270mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 1.152kg
ISBN: 9781913107246
ISBN 10: 1913107248
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 09 November 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sean Willcock is an Early Career Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London.

Reviews for Victorian Visions of War and Peace: Aesthetics, Sovereignty, and Violence in the British Empire

“[A] fascinating, richly illustrated study. . . . Willcock’s nimble scholarship ranges well beyond the discipline of art history, and his absorbing analyses of the embodied encounters of image-making contribute to fields such as affect studies, critical archival studies, and citizenship studies.”—Katherine Judith Anderson, Victorian Studies