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Mimesis across empires : artworks and networks in India, 1765-1860 / Natasha Eaton.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eaton, Natasha, 1974-
- Series:
- Objects/histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Indic--19th century.
- Art, Indic.
- Art, Indic--18th century.
- Art, British--India.
- Art, British.
- Art, Colonial--India.
- Art, Colonial.
- Art, Mughal Empire--Influence.
- Art, Mughal Empire.
- Mughal Empire--Civilization--Influence.
- Mughal Empire.
- Civilization--Influence.
- India.
- India--Mughal Empire.
- Art, Mogul Empire--Influence.
- Mogul Empire--Civilization--Influence.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 331 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- "In Mimesis Across Empires, Natasha Eaton examines the interactions, attachments, and crossings between the visual cultures of the Mughal and British Empires during the formative period of British imperial rule in India. Eaton explores how the aesthetics of Mughal "vernacular" art and British "realist" art mutually informed one another to create a hybrid visual economy. By tracing the exchange of objects and ideas - between Mughal artists and British collectors, British artists and Indian subjects, and Indian elites and British artists - she shows how Mughal artists influenced British conceptions of their art, their empire, and themselves, even as European art gave Indian painters a new visual vocabulary with which to critique colonial politics and aesthetics."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Colonizing the exotic : Indian and colonial art in London
- The mirroring of mirrors : nostalgia, sovereignty, and unhomely images in Calcutta
- Mimicking kingship : sovereign genealogies, vernacular landscape, and the work of William Hodges
- Art and gift in India
- Sacrifice and the double : physiognomy, divination, and ethnographic art in India.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822354666
- 0822354667
- 9780822354802
- 0822354802
- OCLC:
- 861507086
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