Grafted Arts: Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760-1910
Autor Holly Shafferen Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 iul 2022
Grafted Arts focuses on Maratha military rulers and British East India Company officials who used the arts to engage in diplomacy, wage war, compete for prestige, and generate devotion as they allied with (or fought against) each other to control western India in the eighteenth century. This book conceptualizes the artistic combinations that resulted as ones of “graft”—a term that acknowledges the violent and creative processes of suturing arts, and losing and gaining goods, as well as the shifting dynamics among agents who assembled such materials.
By tracing grafted arts from multiple perspectives—Maratha and British, artist and patron, soldier and collector—this book charts the methods of empire-building that recast artistic production and collection in western India and from there across India and in Britain. This mercenary method of artistry propagated mixed, fractured, and plundered arts. Indeed, these “grafted arts”—disseminated across India and Britain over the nineteenth century to aid in consolidating empire or revolting against it entirely—remain instigators of nationalist agitation today.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781913107284
ISBN-10: 1913107280
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 150 color + b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 216 x 270 x 27 mm
Greutate: 1.48 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN-10: 1913107280
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 150 color + b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 216 x 270 x 27 mm
Greutate: 1.48 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Paul Mellon Centre
Recenzii
“Invaluable . . . critical yet accessible. . . . [A] richly layered study.”—Tara Kuruvilla, Art Journal
“An important intervention into the study of Indian painting and collecting in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century India.”—Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, Art Bulletin
Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Award, for a single-authored book with a subject between 1800–1960
Winner of the Edward C. Dimock, Jr. Book Prize, sponsored by the American Institute of Indian Studies
Awarded the 2024 Historians of British Art Book Prize for a single-authored book with a subject between 1800–1960
Shortlisted for the BASAS 2024 book prize
“An important intervention into the study of Indian painting and collecting in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century India.”—Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, Art Bulletin
Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Award, for a single-authored book with a subject between 1800–1960
Winner of the Edward C. Dimock, Jr. Book Prize, sponsored by the American Institute of Indian Studies
Awarded the 2024 Historians of British Art Book Prize for a single-authored book with a subject between 1800–1960
Shortlisted for the BASAS 2024 book prize
Notă biografică
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.
Descriere
Conceptualizes “graft”— the violent and creative processes of suturing arts as a method of empire building in western eighteenth-century India