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Mimesis Across Empires: Artworks and Networks in India, 1765-1860(Objects/Histories)

Mimesis Across Empires: Artworks and Networks in India, 1765-1860(Objects/Histories)


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In Mimesis Across Empires, Natasha Eaton examines the interactions, attachments, and crossings between the visual cultures of the Mughal and British Empires during the formative period of British imperial rule in India. Eaton explores how the aesthetics of Mughal "vernacular" art and British "realist" art mutually informed one another to create a hybrid visual economy. By tracing the exchange of objects and ideas-between Mughal artists and British collectors, British artists and Indian subjects, and Indian elites and British artists-she shows how Mughal artists influenced British conceptions of their art, their empire, and themselves, even as European art gave Indian painters a new visual vocabulary with which to critique colonial politics and aesthetics. By placing her analysis of visual culture in relation to other cultural encounters-ethnographic, legislative, diplomatic-Eaton uncovers deeper intimacies and hostilities between the colonizer and the colonized, linking artistic mimesis to the larger colonial project in India.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Colonizing the Exotic: Indian and Colonial Art in London 19 2. The Mirroring of Mirrors: Nostalgia, Sovereignty, and Unhomely Images in Calcutta 63 3. Mimicking Kingship: Sovereign Genealogies, Vernacular Landscape, and the Work of William Hodges 105 4. Art and Gift in India: Mimesis and Inalienability 151 5. Sacrifice and the Double: Physiognomy, Divination, and Ethnographic Art in India 195 Conclusion 229 Notes 247 Works Cited 297 Index 323

About the Author :
Natasha Eaton is a Lecturer in the History of Art at University College London.

Review :
"Exploding expectations about 'exchange' and 'co-histories' Natasha Eaton offers a radical and brilliant analysis that perfectly describes the struggle over mimesis in colonial India. 'Alter-aware' imagery and practices are animated in complex dances of intimacy and hostility. A hugely important work." - Christopher Pinney, author of Photography's Other Histories "This is a genuinely exciting contribution to visual culture studies and postcolonial art history, offering a rich and wide-ranging account of mimesis in various imperial and south Asian representational exchanges over the crucial period from the establishment of the British East India Company to the Uprising. Richly informed by recent philosophy, contemporary art and art theory, and anthropology, among other fields, this book bristles with ambition and provocative ideas." - Nicholas Thomas, coauthor of Art in Oceania: A New History "Mimesis across Empires presents a strikingly innovative and challenging perspective on British art's relationship to empire and the imperial consciousness, as well as on the role of art and artists in British India. Impressively researched and theoretically well informed, this book considers European and Indian modes of visuality alongside each other in order to reframe the relationship between colonizer and colonized." - Geoff Quilley, author of Empire to Nation: Art, History and the Visualization of Maritime Britain, 1768-1829


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  • ISBN-13: 9780822354802
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Sub Title: Artworks and Networks in India, 1765-1860
  • ISBN-10: 0822354802
  • Publisher Date: 02 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Series Title: Objects/Histories
  • Weight: 617 gr


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