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India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display - Couverture souple

Mathur, Saloni

 
9780520252318: India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520252314 ISBN 13 : 9780520252318
Editeur : University of California Press, 2007

Synopsis

India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display maps for the first time a series of historical events-from the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day-through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the popular cultural arenas of the imperial metropole. Situated at the convergence of discussions in anthropology, art history, museum studies, and postcolonial criticism, this dynamic study investigates with vivid historical detail how Indian objects, bodies, images, and narratives circulated through metropolitan space and acquired meaning in an emergent nineteenth-century consumer economy. Through an examination of India as represented in department stores, museums, exhibitions, painting, and picture postcards of the era, the book carefully confronts the problems and politics of postcolonial display and offers an original and provocative account of the implications of colonial practices for visual production in our contemporary world.

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À propos de l'auteur

Saloni Mathur is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520252314
ISBN 13 
9780520252318
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
230
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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