Empires of light : vision, visibility and power in colonial India /

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Light was central to the visual politics and imaginative geographies of empire, even beyond its role as a symbol of knowledge and progress in post-Enlightenment narratives. This book describes how imperial mappings of geographical space in terms of 'cities of light' and 'hearts of dar...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dinkar, Niharika (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Series:Rethinking art's histories.
Subjects:
Ravi Varma, > 1848-1906 > Criticism and interpretation.
Ravi Varma, > 1848-1906.
Art, Indic.
Art, Colonial > India.
Light in art.
Art de l'Inde.
Art colonial > Inde.
Lumière dans l'art.
Art, Colonial.
India.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : writing photo-graphic histories of empire
  • Part I. Technologies of illumination. Through the glass darkly : the phantasmagoria of Elephanta
  • Four acts of seeing : the veil as technology of illumination
  • Part II. 'Visibility is a trap' : battles of the veil. 'Purdah hai purdah!' : proscenium theatre and technologies of illusionism
  • Erotics of the body politic : the naked and the clothed
  • Part III. Chiaroscuro, portraiture and subjectivity. Private lives and interior spaces : masculine subjects in Ravi Varma's scholar paintings
  • Impossible subjects : the subaltern in the shadows.

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