The Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta : conception, collections, conservation / edited by Philippa Vaughan.

Title & Author:

The Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta : conception, collections, conservation / edited by Philippa Vaughan.

Publication:

Mumbai : Published by Marg Publications on behalf of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, 1997.

Description:

160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 157) and index.
Introduction / Philippa Vaughan -- A visible monument: architectural policies and the Victoria Memorial Hall / G. H. R. Tillotson -- The last of the Augustans: Lord Curzon and Indian architecture / Derek Linstrum -- India and the European cultural inheritance: the Victoria Memorial Hall / Narayani Gupta -- Curzon's "National Gallery": The art collections / Deborah Swallow -- New Insights through restoration: oil paintings of India by European masters circa 1760-1830 / Rupert Featherstone -- The picture frame in context and the art of gilding / Victoria Marsland-Boyer and Adriano Lorenzilli.
Works of art on paper: conservation of the study collection and the role of facsimile / Christine Mackay -- Artists' materials in India at the turn of the nineteenth century: a matter of aesthetic / Jane McAusland and Philippa Vaughan -- Architecture and the environment: conserving the Victoria Memorial Hall / Bernard Feilden -- Today's work for tomorrow's enjoyment: the role of preventive conservation / Sarah Staniforth -- The history of Calcutta through the collections: the Calcutta gallery / J. Kedareswari and Philippa Vaughan -- Traversing past and present in the Victoria Memorial / Tapati Guha-Thakurta.

ISBN:

8185026386
9788185026381

Subject:

Victoria Memorial (Museum : India)
Art, European 18th century.
Art, European 19th century.
Art India.
Architecture, Colonial India.
Art européen 18e siècle.
Art européen 19e siècle.
Architecture coloniale Inde.
Architecture, Colonial
Art
Art, European
India In art.
India

Form/genre:

Art

Added entries:

Vaughan, Philippa.
Marg Publications.
National Centre for the Performing Arts (India)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200663
Call No.: NA44.E532.25 V5 1997
Status: Available

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