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India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display
Saloni Mathur
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Description for India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display
Paperback. Maps a series of historical events - since the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century - through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the popular cultural arenas of the imperial metropole. This book presents an examination of India as represented in department stores, exhibitions, painting, and picture postcards of the era. Num Pages: 230 pages, 48 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JF; 3JJ; HBJF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 59.
"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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520252318
SKU
V9780520252318
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About Saloni Mathur
Saloni Mathur is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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