-
Algerian Guerrilla War II: Les Portes de fer – The Iron Gates of Subjugation
Pictorial Reports from the Algerian Guerrilla War II After a series of devastating defeats against the insurgent Arab militias led by Abd el-Kader, the French tried to gain valuable time through the Treaty of Tafna to consolidate their military. The agreement, concluded in May 1837, granted Abd el- Kader sovereignty over the largest part of […]
-
Algerian Guerrilla War I : Auguste Raffet & Horace Vernet – Pictures of Dynamized Masses and the Art of Reconstruction
Pictorial Reports from the Algerian Guerrilla War I The occupation of Algeria was initiated by Charles X in June 1830 with the capture of Algiers, just a few weeks before the collapse of the Bourbon Restoration regime. At first, the bourgeois July Monarchy under Louis-Philippe had a bit of a hard time warming to this […]
-
Retraite De Constantine / Prise De Constantine
“Retraite de Constantine” was one of the most widespread examples of Auguste Raffet´s series of annual lithography albums. It was published in spring of 1837 by Gilhaut Freres and gives an account of the first failed attempts at conquering the Algerian fortress. The ignominious retreat of the French army in November 1836 was mainly blamed […]
-
“… The World Was Becoming Numerical.” Informational Graphics and Art in Dierk Schmidt´s “Die Teilung der Erde”
Informational Graphics and Art in Dierk Schmidt’s “Die Teilung der Erde” The essay is part of the comprehensive project documentation “Dierk Schmidt: The Division of the Earth – Tableaux on the Legal Synopses of the Berlin Africa Conference.” Edited by Lotte Arndt, Clemens Krümmel, Dierk Schmidt, Hemma Schmutz, Diethelm Stoller, Ulf Wuggenig, Cologne 2010. Dierk […]
-
Burning Cetewayo´s house and other incidents of the British Zulu-War
– encounter with a Zulu – punitive expedition – death of the Prince Imperial – Special Artists setting fire on a Kraal – the corpse of the Prince Imperial- Queen Victoria´s return from the Highlands in mourning – in search of King Cetewayo – the pursuit of Cetewayo – Cetewayo´s treasures – ambassadors from King […]
-
William James Linton´s teaching piece “Cetewayo and Dean Stanley” (1880) – with an introduction by Alexander Roob
Lintoniana IV “History will speak of me.” – On Linton’s colonial-critical dialogue William James Linton grasped himself foremost as a political artist. In the biographical appendix of the compilation of lyrics, English Verse. Lyrics of the 19th Century, which he edited in 1883 together with the renowned literary critic Richard Henry Stoddard, he left no […]
-
The Privatized Subcontinent. On John Corbet Anderson and C.R. Francis:”Sketches Of Native Life In India” (1848)
Among the innumerable illustrated travelogues about India directed to a primarily British audience in the18th and 19th centuries, „Sketches of Native Life in India,“ a book that was published in London in 1848,has gained a special reputation for its exceptional visual impressiveness and its idiosyncratic qualities.Today, even single illustrated sheets from this work are almost […]
-
Tinted India. Day & Son and the Photolithographs in “Tent Life in Tigerland”
In his 1888 collection of stories bearing the somewhat excessive title „Tent Life in Tigerland. Being Sporting Reminiscences of a Pioneer Planter in an Indian Frontier District“, we find former Australian Minister of Education James Inglis looking back to an adventurous stretch of his life as an indigo planter in the mangrove forests of Northern […]