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Painters, ports, and profits : artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850 / edited by Laurel O. Peterson and Holly Shaffer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, British--Exhibitions.
- Art, British.
- East India Company--History.
- East India Company.
- East India Company--Art patronage.
- Great Britain--Commerce--Asia--History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 280 pages (some folded) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Distribution:
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale Center for British Art, [2026]
- Summary:
- "Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850 surveys the remarkable artistic innovations that emerged within the context of the British East India Company's commercial and militaristic expansion into India and China. Extending the term "Company Style" to encompass the broad range of work created within the imperial corporation's cross-cultural networks, this comprehensive exhibition catalogue celebrates the British, Indian, and Chinese artists, often unknown, whose experimentation with papers, pigments, and other materials produced astonishing aesthetic diversity. Compelled by new subjects and techniques, so-called Company artists profoundly affected visual culture within and beyond Asia, challenging notions of asymmetric power dynamics at the apex of the East India Company's rapacious pursuit of profits. Edited by curators Laurel O. Peterson and Holly Shaffer, Painters, Ports, and Profits features more than one hundred objects-architectural drafts, burnished opaque watercolors, hand-colored aquatints, and small and large-scale portraits-drawn from the Yale Center for British Art's rich collection and includes new research from an international group of scholars, curators, and conservators"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Martina Droth
- The company we keep: art, commerce, and empire / Holly Shaffer
- Paper, pigment, process: materials and the company / Laurel O. Peterson
- Ports of trade: east and west / contributions by Tim Barringer, Soyeon Choi, Anita Dey, Richard R. Hark, Laurel O. Peterson, Romita Ray, Holly Shaffer, and Yuthika Sharma
- Networks and knowledge: Calcutta, Patna, and Madras / contributions by Navina Najat Haidar, Richard R. Hark, Margaret Masselli, Laurel O. Peterson, Romita Ray, Holly Shaffer, Yuthika Sharma, and Tom Young
- Palaces and politics: Faizabad and Lucknow / contributions by Mark Aronson, Swati Chattopadhyay, Anita Dey, Gillian Forrester, Richard R. Hark, Emma Hartman, Margaret Masselli, Laurel O. Peterson, Holly Shaffer, and Yuthika Sharma
- An artist's view: Poona and the Deccan / contributions by Soyeon Choi, Anita Dey, Brooke Krancer, Laurel O. Peterson, Kalyani Madura, Ramachandran, Holly Shatter, and Marcie Wiggins
- The price of poppies and tea: India and China / contributions by Laurel O. Peterson, Romita Ray, and Holly Shaffer
- In and out of the portrait studio: Canton and Macao / contributions by Laurel O. Peterson and Winnie Wong.
- Notes:
- "Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company' held at the Yale Center for British Art, January 8 - May 31, 2026" -- Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300286546
- 9780300286540
- OCLC:
- 1523040996
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