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Portraiture in South Asia since the Mughals : art, representation and history /
Deriving from Persian artistic techniques, Mughal portraiture reached its apogee during the reigns of the great Mughal emperor-patrons Akbar, Shah Jahan and Jahangir. Much of the art produced in this period was commissioned for political reasons, and art was one method of ensuring power, increasing...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.,
2018.
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| Colección: | Library of South Asian history and culture ;
v. 8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Author Biography; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration and Conventions; List of Contributors; Introduction Portraiture in South Asia; What is a Portrait in South Asia?; Court Portraiture in Mughal India; Portraying the Ideal Rajput; What were Portraits for?; Colonial Modernity and Court Portraiture in South Asia; 1. Portrait or Image? Some Literary and Terminological Perspectives on Portraiture in Early India; The Prevalence of Portraiture in Early India; Literary Testimonies and Vocabulary
- Narratives of the Origins of Portraits and Images2. Tracing the Rise of Mughal Portraiture: The Kabul Corpus, c. 1545-55; Introducing the Kabul Corpus (c. 1545-55); Individual Portraits; Portraits within Larger Compositions; The Paintings' Raison d'etre: Presentation Pieces for the Nawroz Festival?; Approved Likenesses and Master Drawings; The Timurid-Safavid Legacy; Conclusion; 3. Jahangir as Publius Scipio Maior: The Commensurability of Mughal Political Portraiture; The European Connection; The Standing Portrait; Jahangir as the Queller of Rebellion
- Archduke Matthias as Publius Scipio MaiorThe Standing Portrait before a Landscape under Shah Jahan; Jahangir and Archduke Matthias in Political Crisis; Commensurability or Incommensurability?; 4. Portraits in the Mirror: Living Images in NāṢir 'Alī Sirhindī and Mīrzā 'Abd al-Qādir Bīdil; Nāṣir 'Alī Sirhindī's Naqqāsh u ṣūrat; The Story of Bīdil's Portrait; Conclusion; 5. Becoming the Hero: Metamorphosis of the Raja; 6. The Prevalence of Portraiture in the Development of the Devgarh Style; 7. Heroic Rulers and Devoted Servants: Performing Kingship in the Tamil Temple
- Performing Devotion on Venkatam HillDynastic Genealogies on Display in Nayaka Madurai; Portraiture and Pilgrimage to Rameshvaram; New Royalty and Temple Portraiture in Colonial Madras Presidency; Conclusion; 8. Village Portraits in William Fraser's Portfolio of Native Drawings; The Road to Delhi; A Gentlemen Settler for Delhi; Shaping Boundaries, Mapping Figures; Delineating the Immeasurable: Rania and Pastoral Portraiture; Capturing a Likeness; Empiricism of the Heart; The Delhi Artist between Court and Company
- 9. The Role of Portraiture in Pakistani Contemporary Miniature Painting: The 'Mughal Connection'Chance; Artists; Bibliography; Index