Rethinking Place in South Asian and Islamic Art, 1500-Present

List of contents

Introduction: In and Out of Place: Engagements in South Asian and Islamic Art History
Deborah S. Hutton and Rebecca M. Brown
Part I: Experiencing Place
1. "And in the Soup Kitchen Food Shall Be Cooked Twice Every Day": Gustatory Aspects of
Ottoman Mosque Complexes
Nina Ergin
2. A Mandir for the Masses or Apparatus of Imperial Authority? The Amba Mata Temple in
Udaipur
Jennifer Joffee
3. Water in the Expanded Field: Art, Thought and Immersion in the Yamuna river: 2005–2011
Venugopal Maddipati
4. The Global, The Local, The Contemporary, The Collaborative: Ghari/Ghar Pe/At Home,
Dharavi, Mumbai, 2012
Atreyee Gupta
Part II: Shifting Place
5. Mary on the Moon: Ivory Statuettes of the Virgin Mary from Goa and Sri Lanka
Marsha G. Olson
6. From Dictatorship to Democracy: Cordoba’s Islamic Monuments in the Twentieth Century
Jennifer Roberson
7. Mosque, Dome, Minaret: Ahmadiyya Architecture in Germany since 2000
Alisa Eimen
Part III: Defining Place
8. Shangri La: The Archive-Museum and the Spatial Topologies of Islamic Art History
Sugata Ray
9. A Thoroughly Modern Major: Photography, Identity, and Politics at the Court of Hyderabad
Deborah S. Hutton
10. Useful but Dangerous: Photography and the Madras School of Art, 1850–1873
Deepali Dewan
11. Temporal Transformations: Terracotta and Trash
Rebecca M. Brown

About the author

Deborah S. Hutton is Professor, Department of Art and Art History, The College of New Jersey, USA.
Rebecca M. Brown is Associate Professor, History of Art, Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Summary

The particular nexus for this collection lies at the intersection and overlap of two major subfields in the history of art: South Asia and the Islamic world, both are geographically determined, yet uncategorizable as place with their ever-shifting and contested borders.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah S. Brown Hutton
• Assisted by: Rebecca M. Brown (Editor), Brown Rebecca M. (Editor), Deborah S. Hutton (Editor), Hutton Deborah S. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780367199142
• ISBN: 978-0-367-19914-2
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Asia, HISTORY / Middle East / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, ART / General, ART / History / General, RELIGION / Islam / History, ART / Middle Eastern, ART / Asian / General, Middle East, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Art, East Asia, Far East, Asian History, North Africa, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Oriental art, HISTORY / Asia / South / General