1st Edition
Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia Vertiginous Exchange
By Natasha Eaton
Copyright 2021
236 Pages
22 Color & 30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
22 Color & 30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
22 Color & 30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what are ideas of vertiginous collecting, art-making and museums as expanded fields, including wonder houses and missionary museums (or museobuses) in Britain and South Asia.
If the historiography of British India has privileged photography and the 'Imperial Picturesque', the emphasis here is on the formation of a creole modernity, one... Read more
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Biography
Natasha Eaton is Reader in the History of Art at University College London, UK.
