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British art and the East India Company /

This book examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when a new "school" of British art was in its formative stages with the foundation of exhibiting societies and the Royal Academy in 1...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quilley, Geoff (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press, 2020.
Colección:Worlds of the East India Company ; v. 18.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: corporate patronage and Company artists
  • 'That extensive commerce': the maritime image of the East India Company
  • Travels in India: landscape and colonial patronage
  • Networks of knowledge, power and cultural exchange
  • The cries of India: colonial power, classification, and the diffusion of knowledge
  • By way of China
  • Collecting India
  • Conclusion.