Grafted Arts - Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760-1910

A study of the Maratha military rulers and British East India Company officials who used the arts as a method of empire building in eighteenth-century western India

A propos de l'auteur

Holly Shaffer is assistant professor of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University with a focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and South Asian arts and their intersections.

Résumé

Conceptualizes “graft”— the violent and creative processes of suturing arts as a method of empire building in western eighteenth-century India

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Holly Shaffer
• Edition: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781913107284
• ISBN: 978-1-913107-28-4
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions: 278 mm x 223 mm x 27 mm
• Poids: 1438 g
• Illustrations: 150 color + b-w illus.
• Catégories: Littérature > Livres-cadeaux, albums, calendriers perpétuels, recueils de cartes postales; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Histoire de l'art