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art criticism
artistic identity
Author_Keren Rosa Hammerschlag
british modernity
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colonial discourse
cultural hierarchy
cultural politics
empire representation
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imperial identity
national identity
racial ideology
racial otherness
social order
victorian painting
visual culture
visual narrative
Product details
- ISBN 9780520420953
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 03 Feb 2026
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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From the Realist canvases of the Pre-Raphaelites to the Aesthetic experiments of James McNeill Whistler, The Chosen Race confronts the complex negotiations of whiteness that played out across British art of the nineteenth century. Examining the representation of racial supremacy, difference, and indeterminacy in paintings produced in England during the reign of Queen Victoria, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag explores the many ways Victorian painters engaged with racial ideas at the height of British imperial dominance. While at times these painters reinforced racial hierarchies, at other times they problematized them, revealing race to be a fundamentally unstable organizing principle by which to build an empire and classify its subjects.
Keren Rosa Hammerschlag is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorship at the Australian National University in Canberra and author of Frederic Leighton: Death, Mortality, Resurrection.
