HAVC 141B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Edward Linley Sambourne, The Rhodes Colossus, Ota Benga
7 Apr 2017
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If you qualify for classroom accommodations, turn in letters quick. Starting next tuesday, attendance papers will be handed around based on tas. Folders with weekly readings and images in module and files. Visual worlds of the 1900s: photography, painting, cinema. Key words colonialism anthropometry eugenics chromolithographs pictorialism straight photography romanticism symbolism fauvism (pho-vism) documentary film fantastical cinema. First 1600s-1814 (green) and second 1830-1962 (blue) french colonial empires. Spreading french culture/materials/religious beliefs to colonies and enrich the. Colonial authority and inherent beliefs: europeans and african natives were fundamentally, biologically different, boundaries were demarcated and naturally self-understood. French empire got plenty of diamonds from africa (one company controlled 40% of trade, used to be 90%) Picture: edward horace with adaman islanders, 1875. Anthropometry: a realist measurement of humans to determine physical characteristics, largely for the purpose of creating racial distinctions: this was earliest incarnation of this practice, which in modern day is used in architecture, drawings, data, etc.
