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Mimesis across empires artworks and networks in India, 1765-1860

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Objects/historiesPublication details: Durham Duke University Press 2013Description: xv, 331p. color illustrations 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780822354802
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.5409033 23 EA-M
LOC classification:
  • N7303 .E28 2013
Contents:
Colonizing the exotic : Indian and colonial art in London -- The mirroring of mirrors : nostalgia, sovereignty, and unhomely images in Calcutta -- Mimicking kingship : sovereign genealogies, vernacular landscape, and the work of William Hodges -- Art and gift in India -- Sacrifice and the double : physiognomy, divination, and ethnographic art in India.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index.

Colonizing the exotic : Indian and colonial art in London -- The mirroring of mirrors : nostalgia, sovereignty, and unhomely images in Calcutta -- Mimicking kingship : sovereign genealogies, vernacular landscape, and the work of William Hodges -- Art and gift in India -- Sacrifice and the double : physiognomy, divination, and ethnographic art in India.

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