Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia

Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia

by Natasha Eaton
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 15/12/2020

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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 that considers the relationship between art and labour, including pearlescence and pearl fishing in Sri Lanka, and the iconoclastic/fetish debates and forms of collecting amongst missionaries. Eaton explores these themes alongside the genealogies and modernities of white(ness) in contemporary curating and amateur female practice, and how the museobus or museum as a unique object has informed the work of contemporary artist group Raqs Media Collective.


This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Asian history, and imperial and colonial history.

ISBN:
9781000262551
9781000262551
Category:
The arts
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
15-12-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis

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