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收藏的澳大利亚土著人民的重要图片。这项研究将集中于1800年至1860年产生的图像-在英国最早的探索和定居澳大利亚之后，但在授予定居者自治政府之前-当时种族，文明，人性和殖民化的思想在澳大利亚和整个大英帝国都在不断变化。该项目将超越传统的艺术史方法，以殖民地澳大利亚的视觉遗产，考虑生产，流通，收集，复制和展示殖民地，帝国和土著历史的问题。因此，它将鼓励人们考虑澳大利亚土著人民的种族化和等级观念如何塑造英国的帝国、治理和文明观念，这些观念继续在今天的土著人民中产生共鸣。虽然这项研究将主要基于大英博物馆中澳大利亚土著人民的图片图像的研究，但其他收藏品，如自然历史博物馆和大英图书馆，也有可能进行调查的相关材料。因此，该项目不仅应该使我们对伦敦作为帝国首都的理解复杂化，而且还应该在英国分散的物品，图像和文件之间建立联系。

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.