Civilisation and Nineteenth-Century Art

David O'Brien is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

• Introduction: What was civilization? - David O'Brien1. Theism and the civilizing process in James Barry's Society of Arts Murals - Daniel Guernsey2. Evaluating others: the mirroring of Chinese civilization in Britain - Greg Thomas3. Civilization as a suffering woman in nineteenth-century River Plate - Laura Malosetti Costa 4. Civilizing Rome: Anglo-American artists and the colonial encounter - Melissa Dabakis 5. Kultur and Zivilisation in 1842-43 or, the failure of the first global art history - Jeanne-Marie Musto6. Civilization and the encyclopedic impulse: Hokusai, Diderot, and the Japanese album as encyclopédie - Emily Brink 7. Second Rome or seat of savagery? Byzantium in nineteenth-century European imaginaries - Maria Taroutina 8. Going native/going British: Victorian mimesis, alterity and repetition - Julie Codell 9. Pre-Columbian civilization as cultural patrimony: archaeology and nationalism at the World's Fairs - Matthew Johnston BibliographyIndex