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024	7		_a10.7312/guha12998 _2doi
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035			_a(OCoLC)213305115
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100	1		_aGuha-Thakurta, Tapati _eautore
245	1	0	_aMonuments, Objects, Histories : _bInstitutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India / _cTapati Guha-Thakurta.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bColumbia University Press, _c[2004]
264		4	_c©2004
300			_a1 online resource (432 p.) : _b132 illus
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aCultures of History
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- _tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- _tINTRODUCTION -- _tPART I: The Colonial Past -- _t1. The empire and its antiquities: Two pioneers and their scholarly fields -- _t2. The museum in the colony: Collecting, conserving, classifying -- _tPART II: Regional Frames -- _t3. Interlocuting texts and monuments: The coming of age of the "native" scholar -- _t4. Between the nation and the region: The locations of a bengali archaeologist -- _t5. Wresting the nation's prerogative: Art history and nationalism in bengal -- _tPART III: National Claims -- _t6. The demands of independence: From a national exhibition to a national museum -- _t7. "For the greater glory of indian art": Travels and tray ails of a yakshi -- _tPART IV: The Embattled Present -- _t8. Art history and the nude: On art, obscenity, and sexuality in contemporary India -- _t9. Archaeology and the monument: On two contentious sites of faith and history -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aArt history as it is largely practiced in Asia as well as in the West is a western invention. In India, works of art-sculptures, monuments, paintings-were first viewed under colonial rule as archaeological antiquities, later as architectural relics, and by the mid-20th century as works of art within an elaborate art-historical classification. Tied to these views were narratives in which the works figured, respectively, as sources from which to recover India's history, markers of a lost, antique civilization, and symbols of a nation's unique aesthetic, reflecting the progression from colonialism to nationalism. The nationalist canon continues to dominate the image of Indian art in India and abroad, and yet its uncritical acceptance of the discipline's western orthodoxies remains unquestioned, the original motives and means of creation unexplored. The book examines the role of art and art history from both an insider and outsider point of view, always revealing how the demands of nationalism have shaped the concept and meaning of art in India. The author shows how western custodianship of Indian "antiquities" structured a historical interpretation of art; how indigenous Bengali scholarship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries attempted to bring Indian art into the nationalist sphere; how the importance of art as a representation of national culture crystallized in the period after Independence; and how cultural and religious clashes in modern India have resulted in conflicting "histories" and interpretations of Indian art. In particular, the author uses the depiction of Hindu goddesses to elicit conflicting scenarios of condemnation and celebration, both of which have at their core the threat and lure of the female form, which has been constructed and narrativized in art history. Monuments, Objects, Histories is a critical survey of the practices of archaeology, art history, and museums in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. The essays gathered here look at the processes of the production of lost pasts in modern India: pasts that come to be imagined around a growing corpus of monuments, archaeological relics, and art objects. They map the scholarly and institutional authority that emerged around such structures and artifacts, making of them not only the chosen objects of art and archaeology but also the prime signifiers of the nation's civilization and antiquity. The close imbrication of the "colonial" and the "national" in the making of India's archaeological and art historical pasts and their combined legacy for the postcolonial present form one of the key themes of the book. Monuments, Objects, Histories offers both an insider's and an outsider's perspective on the growth of these scholarly fields and their institutional apparatus, analyzing the ways they have constituted and recast their objects of study. The book moves from a period that saw the consolidation of western expertise and custodianship of India's "antiquities," to the projection over the twentieth century of varying regional, nativist, and national claims around the country's architectural and artistic inheritance, into a current period that has pitched these objects and fields within a highly contentious politics of nationhood. Monuments, Objects, Histories traces the framing of an official national canon of Indian art through these different periods, showing how the workings of disciplines and institutions have been tied to the pervasive authority of the nation. At the same time, it addresses the radical reconfiguration in recent times of the meaning and scope of the "national," leading to the kinds of exclusions and chauvinisms that lie at the root of the current endangerment of these disciplines and the monuments and art objects they encompass.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650		0	_aArchaeology _xResearch _zIndia _xHistory.
650		0	_aArt _xHistoriography.
650		0	_aArt, Indic.
650		0	_aNationalism and art _zIndia _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aNationalism and art _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		7	_aART / History / General. _2bisacsh
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856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/guha12998
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231503518
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231503518/original
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