Niharika Dinkar

Empires of light

Vision, visibility and power in colonial India

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Produktbeschreibung

Empires of light is a study of light, vision and power in colonial India. It examines the material cultures of light within imperial networks, drawing the colonial experience into contemporary debates on vision and optics to provide an art historical account of how a modern consciousness was forged amidst these dramatic transformations.

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Produktdetails

• Rethinking Art's Histories
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9781526139634
• ISBN-10: 1526139634
• Artikelnr.: 57369655

Autorenporträt

Niharika Dinkar is Associate Professor of South Asian Art History and Visual Culture at Boise State University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: writing photo-graphic histories of empire Part I:
Technologies of illumination 1 Through the glass darkly: the phantasmagoria
of Elephanta 2 Four acts of seeing: the veil as technology of illumination
Part II: 'Visibility is a trap': battles of the veil 3 'Purdah hai purdah!
': proscenium theatre and technologies of illusionism 4 Erotics of the body
politic: the naked and the clothed Part III: Chiaroscuro, portraiture and
subjectivity 5 Private lives and interior spaces: masculine subjects in
Ravi Varma's scholar paintings 6 Impossible subjects: the subaltern in the
shadows Postscript Index