Geoff Quilley

British Art and the East India Company

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art, demonstrating how art and related forms of culture were closely tied to commerce and the rise of the commercial state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 916g
• ISBN-13: 9781783275106
• ISBN-10: 1783275103
• Artikelnr.: 58294627

Autorenporträt

GEOFF QUILLEY is Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex, specializing in the relation of British and western visual culture to empire and global expansion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was previously Curator of Fine Art at the National Maritime Museum, London, and has written and edited numerous books, including Empire to Nation: Art, History and the Visualization of Maritime Britain, 1768-1829 (Yale University Press 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: corporate patronage and Company artists 'That extensive
commerce': the maritime image of the East India Company Travels in India:
landscape and colonial patronage Networks of knowledge, power and cultural
exchange The cries of India: colonial power, classification, and the
diffusion of knowledge By way of China Collecting India Conclusion Notes
Bibliography Index