Forgotten Masters
«The book accompanying the exhibition is far more than just a catalogue….this [is] the best and most handsome book on the subject currently available.»
Peter Parker, Literary Review
As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company officials from Indian painters who had previously worked for the Mughals. Les mer
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Edited by writer and historian William Dalrymple, these hybrid paintings explore both the beauty of the Indian natural world and the social realities of the time in one hundred masterpieces, often of astonishing brilliance and originality. They shed light on a forgotten moment in Anglo-Indian history during which Indian artists responded to European influences while keeping intact their own artistic visions and styles. These artists represent the last phase of Indian artistic genius before the onset of the twin assaults - photography and the influence of western colonial art schools - ended an unbroken tradition of painting going back two thousand years. As these masterworks show, the greatest of these painters deserve to be remembered as among the most remarkable Indian artists of all time.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 192
- ISBN
- 9781781301012
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 28 x 24 cm
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«The book accompanying the exhibition is far more than just a catalogue….this [is] the best and most handsome book on the subject currently available.»
Peter Parker, Literary Review
«He does a sensitive, subtle job of reframing the argument by focusing attention back on the artists, who fashioned a captivating hybrid style that drew on European and Mughal models.»
Alastair Sooke, The Daily Telegraph