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Visualizing Portuguese Power – The Political Use of Images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire (16th18th Century)

By (author) Urte Krass





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Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society. Nowhere is this more evident than in the process of empire building, in which visual language has long been a highly effective means of overpowering another culture with one's own values and beliefs. Visualizing Portuguese Power examines the visual arts within the Portuguese empire between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. With a focus on the appropriation of Portuguese-Christian art within the colonies, the book looks at how these and other objects could be staged to generate new layers of meaning.

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Publisher | Diaphanes AG
Published date | 10 Feb 2017
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 384
Dimensions | 245 x 167 x 25mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 814g
ISBN | 978-3-0373-4742-3
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BISAC | art / history / general


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