Traces of India Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation, 1850-1900

Name: Traces of India Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation, 1850-1900
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ISBN: 9780300098969

ISBN-10: 0300098960

ISBN-13: 9780300098969

Edition: 2003

Authors: Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Julia Ballerini, Stephen Bann, Partha Chatterjee, Janet Dewan

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'Traces of India' investigates the roles played by representations of Indian architecture from late 18th century up to the present day. It discusses how photographs can be read not just as records of an architectural past but as complex artefacts of the cultural and political forces shaping India.

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Yale Center for British Art
Publication date: 5/11/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 9.50" wide x 10.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 4.4
Language: English

?Stephen Bann is Emeritus Professor of Art History and a senior research fellow at the University of Bristol.



Foreword



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Map


From Stone to Paper: Photographs of Architecture and the Traces of History




Projecting India


Antiquarianism, Visuality, and the Exotic Monument: William Hodges's A Dissertation



Rites of Passage: A Frenchman's Albums of British India




Capturing India's Past


The Compulsions of Visual Representation in Colonial India



"This Noble Triumph of Photography": Linnaeus Tripe's Thanjavur Inscription Panorama



Pattern of Photographic Surveys: Joseph Lawton in Ceylon



Photography and Architecture at the Calcutta International Exhibition




Memorializing the Raj


Colonial America and the Old Regime in the Photographs of Linnaeus Tripe



Pictorializing the "Mutiny" of 1857



Monuments and Memorials: Lord Curzon's Creation of a Past for the Raj




Reimagining India


Some Indian "Views of India": The Ethics of Representation



The Sacred Circulation of National Images



Notes


Chronology



Biographical Notes: Photographers and Artists Working in India


Bibliography



Contributors


Index