Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India

by Tapati Guha-Thakurta

Art 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023112998X
• ISBN13: 9780231129985
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 10.3"