Travel Art And Collecting In South Asia

Author : Natasha Eaton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1409409465

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Art, Travel and Collecting in Colonial India, C. 1797-1905 by Natasha Eaton Pdf

Filling in gaps in a largely neglected cultural period, this study proposes that Mughal and Hindu visuality interrupted and undermined British cultural and administrative hegemony in India. Close examination of the lives of various objects reveals that, as they moved between temples, palaces, the bazaar, museums, private collections, and traveling exhibitions, these objects demonstrated their slippery agency and their ability to slide out of colonial definitions. Even during this most authoritarian epoch of empire, Natasha Eaton shows, there were spaces, places, and objects that raise important questions of overt and more subtle forms of resistance. Against the grain of a historiography that privileges the Imperial Picturesque, this book also focuses on how colonialists, and later Indian nationalists, traveled to collect or to see collections, and how a vernacular tourism was created that shook up the relationship between collecting and travel. From Sufi travel, to missionary collecting practices, to the political and artistic emergency of the 1857-58 Uprising, this volume illuminates the often strange and hybrid collecting practices that emerged in colonial India.

Author : Natasha Eaton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000262551

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Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia by Natasha Eaton Pdf

Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what are ideas of vertiginous collecting, art-making and museums as expanded fields, including wonder houses and missionary museums (or museobuses) in Britain and South Asia. If the historiography of British India has privileged photography and the 'Imperial Picturesque', the emphasis here is on the formation of a creole modernity, one that considers the relationship between art and labour, including pearlescence and pearl fishing in Sri Lanka, and the iconoclastic/fetish debates and forms of collecting amongst missionaries. Eaton explores these themes alongside the genealogies and modernities of white(ness) in contemporary curating and amateur female practice, and how the museobus or museum as a unique object has informed the work of contemporary artist group Raqs Media Collective. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Asian history, and imperial and colonial history.

Author : Steven Kossak,Edith Whitney Watts
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art, South Asian
ISBN : 9780870999925

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The Art of South and Southeast Asia by Steven Kossak,Edith Whitney Watts Pdf

Presents works of art selected from the South and Southeast Asian and Islamic collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, lessons plans, and classroom activities.

Author : Allysa B. Peyton,Katherine Anne Paul
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 168340047X

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Arts of South Asia by Allysa B. Peyton,Katherine Anne Paul Pdf

The volume looks at how South Asian art was sourced for external appreciation at a variety of institutions in Europe, North America, and Asia from the mid-19th century onward. These essays speak to the colonial legacies that created such collections but that now must be viewed though a post-colonial lens. The volume also addresses contemporary concerns for todays's museums: collecting, building and practices, provenance, and repatriation.

Author : Saloni Mathur,Kavita Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351556231

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No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying by Saloni Mathur,Kavita Singh Pdf

This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum as a cultural institution in South Asia. It traces the museum from its origin as a tool of colonialism and adoption as a vehicle of sovereignty in the nationalist period, till its role in the present, as it reflects the fissured identities of the post-colonial period.

Author : Arlene Leis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000781410

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Women, Collecting, and Cultures Beyond Europe by Arlene Leis Pdf

This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally. The edited volume builds on recent research and offers a wider lens through which to examine and challenge women’s collecting histories. Spanning from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first (although not organized chronologically) the research herein extends beyond European geographies and across time periods; it brings to light new research on how artificiallia and naturallia were collected, transported, exchanged, and/or displayed beyond Europe. Women, Collecting and Cultures Beyond Europe considers collections as points of contact that forged transcultural connections and knowledge exchange. Some authors focus mainly on collectors and what was collected, while others consider taxonomies, travel, patterns of consumption, migration, markets, and the after life of things. In its broad and interdisciplinary approach, this book amplifies women’s voices, and aims to position their collecting practices toward new transcultural directions, including women’s relation to distinct cultures, customs, and beliefs as well as exposing the challenges women faced when carving a place for themselves within global networks. This study will be of interest to scholars working in collections and collecting, conservation, museum studies, art history, women’s studies, material and visual cultures, Indigenous studies, textile histories, global studies, history of science, social and cultural histories.

Author : Kathleen Davidson,Molly Duggins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501352805

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Sea Currents in Nineteenth-Century Art, Science and Culture by Kathleen Davidson,Molly Duggins Pdf

How did scientists, artists, designers, manufacturers and amateur enthusiasts experience and value the sea and its products? Examining the commoditization of the ocean world during the nineteenth century, this book demonstrates how the transaction of oceanic objects inspired a multifaceted material discourse stemming from scientific exploration, colonial expansion, industrialization, and the rise of middle-class leisure. From the seashore to the seabed, marine organisms and environments, made tangible through processing and representational technologies, captivated practitioners and audiences. Combining essays and case studies by scholars, curators, and scientists, Sea Currents investigates the collecting and display, illustration and ornamentation, and trade and consumption of marine flora and fauna, analysing their material, aesthetic and commercial dimensions. Traversing global art history, the history of science, empire studies, anthropology, ecocriticism and material culture, this book surveys the currency of marine matter embedded in the economies and ecologies of a modernizing ocean world.

Author : Madhab Choudhary,Anantashutosh Dwivedi,Azad Hind Gulshan Nanda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art, Indic
ISBN : 9381843341

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Reimagining South Asian Art, Culture, and Archaeology by Madhab Choudhary,Anantashutosh Dwivedi,Azad Hind Gulshan Nanda Pdf

Author : Kristin Kelly
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015053130087

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Extraordinary Museums of Southeast Asia by Kristin Kelly Pdf

Every year millions of people travel to Southeast Asia for business or pleasure. Here, in one handy paperback volume, they can find a beautifully illustrated guide to 30 of the region's most interesting and unusual museums. Encompassing art, history, ethnographic, and military collections, and ranging from the national museums of Cambodia and Malaysia to relatively unknown treasures such as the Tribal Museum in Chiang Mai, Thailand, these repositories reflect the rich diversity in the cultural heritage of the area. All of the museums are located in major cities or at archaeological sites frequently visited by tourists. Along with a map showing the location of each museum, travelers will find addresses, telephone numbers, and days and hours of admission. The accessible format and compact size makes this the practical guidebook for tourists, while the engaging and informed text serves as a lively introduction to the culture, art, and history of this vibrant region.

Author : Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000627107

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Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art by Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton Pdf

This book examines Afrofuturism in African American art, focusing specifically on images of black women and how those images expand the discourse of representation in visual culture of the United States. This volume defines a visual language of Afrofuturism that includes materiality, temporality, and black liberation. Elizabeth Hamilton discusses the visual progenitors of Afrofuturism. In the artworks of Pierre Bennu, Sanford Biggers, Alison Saar, Mequitta Ahuja, Robert Pruitt, Renee Cox, Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Alma Thomas, and Harriet Powers, the fantastic narratives of Afrofuturism are uncovered through in-depth case studies. These case studies engage with Afrofuturism as a black feminist visual theory that helps to unburden the images of black women from the stereotypical visual scripts that are so common in contemporary visual culture of the United States. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, American literature, gender studies, popular culture, and African American studies.

Author : Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000583854

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Imaging Migration in Post-War Britain by Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk Pdf

This book examines the artistic practices of a range of British-based artists of East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese) heritage to consider the social, political and cultural effects of migration or diaspora on their creative production. Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk demonstrates three themes: the multiplicity and expansive contemporaneity of these artists’ visual oeuvres; the physical impact or interpretation of migratory circumstances on their artistic practices; and the necessity to continue to evolve ways of thinking about migration, race and border crossings in the current political climate of the 21st century. The book will be of interest to scholars studying art history, Asian studies, British studies, migration and diaspora studies, and cultural studies.

Author : Priya Jha,Rajinder Dudrah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000369229

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Designing (Post)Colonial Knowledge by Priya Jha,Rajinder Dudrah Pdf

Over the past 20 years we have seen critical design studies emerge as a springboard for scholars, activists, and those working in the creative industries. Design studies has enabled critics to link the relationship between constructions of knowledge and the emotional commitments that both practitioners and audiences bring to the making and uses of design work. A critical focus on these practices can reveal issues such as the distribution of power and emotional evocations and experiences in and through different designs. At the same time, the use of design studies has drawn on diverse fields such as art history, architecture, public policy, and Geographic Information Systems. This collected volume, the first of its kind, engages with these fields of critical inquiry with ideas and debates in post-colonial studies, and in media and cultural studies. It contributes to a growing body of scholarship that examines material culture and its relationship between design and its construction of knowledge about multicultural identities in the colonial and postcolonial periods, with a focus on South Asia. The chapters pose questions about colonial history, colonial and postcolonial cultural practices, and the aestheticization of South Asian art, design, and media forms as they inform identities in a deterritorialized global culture. The sites of the investigation by the contributors reflect the interdisciplinarity of design studies and share the insistence on emphasizing the vernacular: Indian fashion design, lithographic design in Muslim princely states, and Indian floor drawings live alongside museum exhibitions, shopping malls, and film spaces. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.

Author : Janet Berry Hess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000367140

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Digital Mapping and Indigenous America by Janet Berry Hess Pdf

Employing anthropology, field research, and humanities methodologies as well as digital cartography, and foregrounding the voices of Indigenous scholars, this text examines digital projects currently underway, and includes alternative modes of "mapping" Native American, Alaskan Native, Indigenous Hawaiian and First Nations land. The work of both established and emerging scholars addressing a range of geographic regions and cultural issues is also represented. Issues addressed include the history of maps made by Native Americans; healing and reconciliation projects related to boarding schools; language and land reclamation; Western cartographic maps created in collaboration with Indigenous nations; and digital resources that combine maps with narrative, art, and film, along with chapters on archaeology, place naming, and the digital presence of elders. This text is of interest to scholars working in history, cultural studies, anthropology, Native American studies, and digital cartography.

Author : Elodie Silberstein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000628470

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Animality and Humanity in French Late Modern Representations of Black Femininity by Elodie Silberstein Pdf

This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global North’s destructive relationship with the natural world. Drawing on a broad spectrum of archives extending back to the late 18th century – paintings, fashion plates, prints, photographs, and films – this study traces the intricate ways a patriarchal imperialism and a global capitalism have paired black women with the realm of nature to justify the exploitation both of people and of ecosystems. These dehumanizing and speciesist strategies of subjugation have perpetuated interlocking patterns of social injustice and environmental depletion that constitute the most salient challenges facing humankind today. Through a novel approach that merges visual studies, critical race theory, and animal studies, this interdisciplinary investigation historicizes the evolution of the boundaries between human and non-human animals during the modern period. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, critical race theory, colonial and post-colonial studies, animal studies, and French studies.

Author : Michael North
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0754669378

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Artistic and Cultural Exchanges Between Europe and Asia, 1400-1900 by Michael North Pdf

Traditionally, relations between Europe and Asia have been studied in a hegemonic perspective, with Europe as the dominant political and economic centre. This book focuses on cultural exchange between different European and Asian civilizations, with the r