Mimesis across empires : artworks and networks in India, 1765-1860 /
Eaton, Natasha, 1974-
Mimesis across empires : artworks and networks in India, 1765-1860 / Natasha Eaton. - xv, 331 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 cm. - Objects/histories. . - Objects/histories. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index.
Colonizing the exotic : Indian and colonial art in London -- The mirroring of mirrors : nostalgia, sovereignty, and unhomely images in Calcutta -- Mimicking kingship : sovereign genealogies, vernacular landscape, and the work of William Hodges -- Art and gift in India -- Sacrifice and the double : physiognomy, divination, and ethnographic art in India.
"In Mimesis Across Empires, Natasha Eaton examines the interactions, attachments, and crossings between the visual cultures of the Mughal and British Empires during the formative period of British imperial rule in India. Eaton explores how the aesthetics of Mughal "vernacular" art and British "realist" art mutually informed one another to create a hybrid visual economy. By tracing the exchange of objects and ideas - between Mughal artists and British collectors, British artists and Indian subjects, and Indian elites and British artists - she shows how Mughal artists influenced British conceptions of their art, their empire, and themselves, even as European art gave Indian painters a new visual vocabulary with which to critique colonial politics and aesthetics."--Back cover.
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016565489 Uk
Art, Indic--19th century.
Art, Indic--18th century.
Art, British--India.
Art, Colonial--India.
Art, Mogul--Influence.
Mogul Empire--Civilization--Influence.
Mimesis across empires : artworks and networks in India, 1765-1860 / Natasha Eaton. - xv, 331 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 cm. - Objects/histories. . - Objects/histories. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index.
Colonizing the exotic : Indian and colonial art in London -- The mirroring of mirrors : nostalgia, sovereignty, and unhomely images in Calcutta -- Mimicking kingship : sovereign genealogies, vernacular landscape, and the work of William Hodges -- Art and gift in India -- Sacrifice and the double : physiognomy, divination, and ethnographic art in India.
"In Mimesis Across Empires, Natasha Eaton examines the interactions, attachments, and crossings between the visual cultures of the Mughal and British Empires during the formative period of British imperial rule in India. Eaton explores how the aesthetics of Mughal "vernacular" art and British "realist" art mutually informed one another to create a hybrid visual economy. By tracing the exchange of objects and ideas - between Mughal artists and British collectors, British artists and Indian subjects, and Indian elites and British artists - she shows how Mughal artists influenced British conceptions of their art, their empire, and themselves, even as European art gave Indian painters a new visual vocabulary with which to critique colonial politics and aesthetics."--Back cover.
9780822354666 0822354667 9780822354802 0822354802
2013010726
016565489 Uk
Art, Indic--19th century.
Art, Indic--18th century.
Art, British--India.
Art, Colonial--India.
Art, Mogul--Influence.
Mogul Empire--Civilization--Influence.