Main entry:

Guha-Thakurta, Tapati.

Title & Author:

Monuments, objects, histories : institutions of art in colonial and postcolonial India / Tapati Guha-Thakurta.

Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, ©2004.

Description:

xxv, 404 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.

Series:

Cultures of history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-391) and index.
PART I -- The Colonial Past -- The Empire and Its Antiquities: Two Pioneers and Their Scholarly Fields -- The Museum in the Colony: Collecting, Conserving, Classifying -- PART II -- Regional Frames -- Interlocuting Texts and Monuments: the Coming of Age of the "Native" Scholar -- Between the Nation and the Region: the Locations of a Bengali Archaeologist -- Wresting the Nation's Prerogative: Art History and Nationalism in Bengal -- PART III National Claims -- The Demands of Independence: from a National Exhibition to a National Museum -- "For the Greater Glory of Indian Art": Travels and Travails of a Yakshi -- PART IV The Embattled Present -- Art History and the Nude: on Art, Obscenity, and Sexuality in Contemporary India -- Archaeology and the Monument: on Two Contentious Sites of Faith and History.

Summary:

"Monuments, Objects, Histories is a critical survey of the practices of archaeology, art history, and museums in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. The essays gathered here look at the processes of the production of lost pasts in modern India: pasts that come to be imagined around a growing corpus of monuments, archaeological relics, and art objects. They map the scholarly and institutional authority that emerged around such structures and artifacts, making of them not only the chosen objects of art and archaeology but also the prime signifiers of the nation's civilization and antiquity."
"Monuments, Objects, Histories traces the framing of an official national canon of Indian art through these different periods, showing how the workings of disciplines and institutions have been tied to the pervasive authority of the nation. At the same time, it addresses the radical reconfiguration in recent times of the meaning and scope of the "national," leading to the kinds of exclusions and chauvinisms that lie at the root of the current endangerment of these disciplines and the monuments and art objects they encompass."--Jacket.

Resources:
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Table of contents

ISBN:

023112998X (acid-free paper)
9780231129985 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Nationalism and art India History 19th century.
Nationalism and art India History 20th century.
Art Historiography.
Archaeology Research India History.
Art, Indic.
Nationalisme et art Inde Histoire 19e siècle.
Nationalisme et art Inde Histoire 20e siècle.
Art Historiographie.
Archéologie Recherche Inde Histoire.
Art de l'Inde.
Archaeology Research
Colonial influence
Nationalism and art
Kunst
Archäologie
Beeldende kunsten.
Bouwkunst.
Nationalisme.
Kolonialisme.
Kunstgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
India Colonial influence.
India
Indien

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Cultures of history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232060
Call No.: N7303.5.I6 G8 2004
Status: Available