Main entry:

Mathur, Saloni, author.

Title & Author:

India by design : colonial history and cultural display / Saloni Mathur.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007

Description:

xi, 219 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index.
Introduction : Colonial patterns, Indian styles -- The Indian village in Victorian space : the department store and the cult of the craftsman -- "To visit the Queen" : on display at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886 -- The discrepant portraiture of empire : oil painting in a global field -- Collecting colonial postcards : gender and the visual archive -- A parable of postcolonial return : museums and the discourse of restitution -- Epilogue : Historical afterimages.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780520234178 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520234170 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520252318 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520252314 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

East Indians in art.
Imperialism Social aspects India History.
Art, Victorian.
Art, Indic.
Orientalism in art.
Imperialism in art.
Art.
Ethnology.
Cultural pluralism.
Anthropology, Cultural
Cultural Diversity
Colonialism history
Impérialisme Aspect social Inde Histoire.
Art victorien.
Art de l'Inde.
Orientalisme dans l'art.
Impérialisme dans l'art.
Ethnologie.
Diversité culturelle.
Victorian.
15.75 history of Asia.
73.00 ethnology: general.
Imperialism Social aspects
Kunst
Exoticism in art Great Britain History 19th century.
Exoticism in art Great Britain History 20th century.
India In art.
India
Großbritannien
Indien (Motiv)

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253408
Call No.: N6767.5.V52 M3 2007
Status: Available