Format:
XXV, 404 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First paperback edition
ISBN:
8178241870
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9788178241876
Content:
"Monuments, objects, histories surveys the practices of archaeology, art history, and museums in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. It looks at processes by which 'lost pasts' came to be produced in India. Such lost pasts, the author shows, came to be imagined around a corpus of monuments, archaeological relics, and art objects." "In brief, this book traces the framing of an official national canon of Indian art through different periods, showing how the workings of disciplines and institutions have been linked with the authority of the nation." --book cover
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis Seite [373] - 391
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Pt I. The colonial past. Ch. 1. The empire and its antiquities: two pioneers and their scholarly fields -- Ch. 2. The museum in the colony: collecting, conserving, classifying -- Pt II. Regional frames. Ch. 3. Interlocuting texts and monuments: the coming of age of the "native" scholar -- Ch. 4. Between the nation and the region: the locations of a Bengali archaeologist -- Ch. 5. Wresting the nation's prerogative: art history and nationalism in Bengal -- Pt III. National claims. Ch. 6. The demands of independence: from a national exhibition to a national museum -- Ch. 7. "For the greater glory of Indian art": travels and travails of a Yakshi -- Pt IV. The embattled present. Ch. 8. Art history and the nude: on art, obscenity, and sexuality in contemporary India -- Ch. 9. Archaeology and the monument: on two contentious sites of faith and history.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Indien
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Kunst
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Archäologie
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Kolonialismus
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Nationalismus
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Geschichte
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Indien
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Kunst
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Archäologie
;
Kolonialismus
;
Nationalismus
;
Geschichte
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