Empire and Art
British India
Edited by Renate Dohmen
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- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-2294-0
- Pages: 200
- Price: £19.99
- Published Date: January 2018
- Series: Art and its Global Histories
Description
The book explores British art in relation to British India. It examines the aesthetic interactions initiated by the Anglo-Indian colonial encounter across the disciplines of painting, print-making, design, photography and architecture. It also considers the display of Indian artefacts at exhibitions in Britain and in India and presents the art of urban elites alongside popular arts and artefacts.
Contents
Introduction - Renate Dohmen
1 Painting in British India - Renate Dohmen
2 Indian crafts and empire - Renate Dohmen
3 Photography in colonial India - Steve Edwards
4 Architecture, empire and India - Elizabeth McKellar
Conclusion - Renate Dohmen
Index
Editor
Renate Dohmen is Lecturer in Art History at The Open University
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