Picturing the Antipodes: race, image and empire in 19C. Britain

这个项目的灵感来自大英博物馆早期澳大利亚土著居民的重要图片收藏。研究将集中于1800-1860年间拍摄的图像，这是在英国最早对澳大利亚进行勘探和定居之后，但在授予定居者自治权之前，当时澳大利亚和整个大英帝国的种族、文明、人性和殖民观念都在不断变化。该项目将超越传统的艺术史方法，探讨澳大利亚殖民时期的视觉遗产，考虑殖民地、帝国和土著历史中的生产、流通、收藏、复制和展示问题。因此，它将鼓励人们思考关于澳大利亚土著人民的种族化和等级观念是如何塑造英国对帝国、治理和文明的观念的，这些观念今天仍在土著人民中产生共鸣。虽然这项研究将主要基于对大英博物馆中澳大利亚土著人民的图画图像的研究，但自然历史博物馆和大英图书馆等其他收藏也有可能被调查的相关材料。因此，该项目不仅应该使我们对伦敦作为帝国首都的角色的理解复杂化，而且应该在英国分散的物品，图像和文件收藏之间建立联系

This project is inspired by the British Museum's significant early pictorial collections of Australian Indigenous people. The research will focus on images produced c.1800-1860 - after the earliest British exploration and settlement of Australia, but before the granting of settler self-government - when ideas of race, civilization, humanity and colonization were in flux in Australia and across Britain's Empire. The project will move beyond traditional art history approaches to colonial Australia's visual heritage, to consider questions of production, circulation, collection, reproduction and display within colonial, imperial and Indigenous histories. As such it will encourage a consideration of how racialised and hierarchical ideas about Australia's Aboriginal peoples shaped British notions of empire, governance and civilization that continue to resonate for Indigenous people today. While the research will be based primarily on the study of pictorial images of Australian Indigenous peoples in the British Museum, other collections such as the Natural History Museum and British Library, hold relevant material that may be investigated. Consequently, the project should not only complicate our understanding of London's role as an imperial capital, but also create links between scattered collections of objects, images and documents in the U.K.