Travel, art and collecting in South Asia: vertiginous exchange

"Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what might be ideas of vertiginous collecting, art making and museums as expanded fields, including wonder houses, missionary museums or museobuses, in Britain and South Asia. If the historiography of British India has privileged photography a...

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Main Author: Eaton, Natasha 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York Routledge 2021
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Summary:"Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what might be ideas of vertiginous collecting, art making and museums as expanded fields, including wonder houses, 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 relationships 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"--
Physical Description:1 Online Ressource (xvi, 204 Seiten)
ISBN:9781003119586
DOI:10.4324/9781003119586

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