India By Design: Colonial History And Cultural Display
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2007. Hardcover. black cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. book xi, 219 pgs w/ bw illustrations. VG (cloth heavily scuffed & scratched. abrasion to textblock edge w/ fine chips & creasing to a section pgs. tightly bound; appears unread). Item #193489
ISBN: 9780520234178
India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display maps for the first time a series of historical events - from the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day - through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the popular cultural arenas of the imperial metropole. Situated at the convergence of discussions in anthropology, art history, museum studies, and postcolonial criticism, this dynamic study investigates with vivid historical detail how Indian objects, bodies, images, and narratives circulated through metropolitan space and acquired meaning in an emergent nineteenth-century consumer economy. Through an examination of India as represented in department stores, museums, exhibitions, painting, and picture postcards of the era, the book carefully confronts the problems and politics of postcolonial display and offers an original and provocative account of the implications of colonial practices for visual production in our contemporary world.--WorldCat.
OCLC: 76481430
Price: $115.00