India by design : colonial history and cultural display
Saloni Mathur (Author)
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
Print Book, English, 2007
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2007
History
xi, 219 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
9780520234178, 9780520252318, 0520234170, 0520252314
76481430
Introduction : Colonial patterns, Indian styles
The Indian village in Victorian space : the department store and the cult of the craftsman
"To visit the Queen" : on display at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886
The discrepant portraiture of empire : oil painting in a global field
Collecting colonial postcards : gender and the visual archive
A parable of postcolonial return : museums and the discourse of restitution
Epilogue : Historical afterimages