The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector, 1600-1860
Autor Jennifer Howesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 apr 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1032361174
Pagini: 234
Ilustrații: 85 Halftones, black and white; 85 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Academic and PostgraduateRecenzii
‘The complexity of the East India Company is one of the reasons British Empire is so poorly understood. Howes does vital work shining light on one particular aspect of its history – a real education for me.’—Sathnam Sanghera
Cuprins
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
Notă biografică
Jennifer Howes is a London-based art historian who specialises in the art and architecture of Indiäs colonial period.
Descriere
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.