SET OF TWO BOOKS ON ART IN COLONIAL INDIA

a) Partha Mitter, Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations, Cambridge University Press in 1994 and never reprinted

pp. xxix, 475 with notes, bibliography, index and 30 colour plates and 190 black and white illustrations in the text; later half leather bound
10 x 7.5 in (25.4 x 19.05 cm)

Discusses the advent of Modern Indian art from its origins under British patronage in the 1850s through Calcutta lithographs and Victorian imitators of the British Punch to Raja Ravi Varma and M V Dhurandhar to Gaganendranath and Abanindranath Tagore to Asit Haldar and Nandalal Bose, Chughtai, K N Mazumdar and all the lesser artists in between such as Damerla Rama Rao and Venkatappa. Has extensive notes and bibliography. A seminal and magisterial work of deep research.

b) Christopher Alan Bayly, The Raj: India and the British, 1600-1947, London: National Portrait Gallery Publications, 1991

432 pages, profusely illustrated; later half leather bound with original card covers inside, ex-library copy
11x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 cm)

"Although this richly illustrated volume catalogues an exhibit held in 1990-1991 at London's National Portrait Gallery, it stands on its own as a study of how the British created images of colonial India, and of how the Indians viewed the British. British artists depicted a "mysterious'' subcontinent refracted through European aesthetic categories. Portraits presented Indians as representatives of types, tribes or castes. Indian artists often tried to diminish their foreign overlords, portraying British officials as, at most, the equals of rajas and princes. As nationalism took hold, Indian artists challenged the Raj's depiction of a land fragmented by caste and religion, showing instead Indian unity in diversity. Bayly, a Cambridge specialist in Indian history, leads a team of British and Indian scholars who provide essays accompanied by paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture, textiles, household furnishings and artifacts." (Source: PWxyz, LLC.)

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