Art of a Corporation - The East India Company As Patron and Collector, 1600-1860

The Art of a Corporation is a comprehensive study of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company from the early seventeenth to the midnineteenth centuries. These items range from oil paintings on canvas and marble statuary, to sandstone Buddhas and metal figurines of Hindu deities. The book takes a chronological approach and focuses on provenance to show that objects are valuable primary resources for understanding the East India Company's history. The artworks illustrate how one of the longest-surviving multinational corporations in the Western world changed over its three-century history and provide a powerful visual account of its perpetually reinvented image.

This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of art history, colonial art, colonial studies, British history, economic history, business history, South Asian history, post-colonial studies, and cultural studies.

Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.

List of contents

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1 Chaos to confidence
2 Landscape and imperialism
3 Romans
4 Scandals
5 Indian sculpture
6 Bureaucracy
7 Continuities
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Jennifer Howes is a London-based art historian who specialises in the art and architecture of India’s colonial period.

Summary

The Art of a Corporation is a comprehensive study of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Howes, Howes Jennifer
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2023
• EAN: 9781032361178
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3236117-8
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, European History, The arts: general issues, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, ART / Art & Politics, ART / Asian / General, History of art / art & design styles, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Art, British & Irish history, Regional Studies, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, British Isles, The arts: general topics, HISTORY / Asia / South / General