by Tatsiana Zhurauliova
Raoul Auger (1904–1991), Jeu de l’Empire Français (The French Empire Game), two-sided game board, 1941. Imprimerie Delattre. Image courtesy of Getty Publications
Visualizing Empire: Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation offers an engaging and often revelatory analysis of visual materials produced by the French government and commercial enterprises to promote France’s colonial project both at home and abroad. Edited by U.S.-based scholars Rebecca Peabody, Steven Nelson, and Dominic Thomas, the volume focuses on the archive of imperial ephemera purchased by the Getty Research Institute in 1997... read more