Santhi Kavuri-Bauer

Monumental Matters

The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture

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Produktbeschreibung

Focuses attention on the prominent role of Mughal architecture in the construction and contestation of the Indian national landscape

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Santhi Kavuri-Bauer is Associate Professor of Art History at San Francisco State University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349228
• ISBN-10: 0822349221
• Artikelnr.: 33629317

Autorenporträt

Santhi Kavuri-Bauer

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Breathing New Life into Old Stones: The Poets and Artists of the Mughal
Monument in the Eighteenth Century 19
2. From Cunningham to Curzon: Producing the Mughal Monument in the Era of
High Imperialism 49
3. Between Fantasy and Phantasmagoria: The Mughal Monument and the
Structure of Touristic Desire 76
4. Rebuilding Indian Muslim Space from the Ruins of the Mughal "Moral City"
95
5. Tryst with Destiny: Nehru's and Gandhi's Mighal Monuments 127
6. The Ethics of Monumentality in Postindependence India 145
Epilogue 170
Notes 179
Bibliography 197
Index