Empires of light : vision, visibility and power in colonial India /: vision, visibility and power in colonial India. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Niharika Dinkar.
• Authors: Dinkar, Niharika
• Contents: Introduction: writing photo-graphic histories of empire; Part I: Technologies of illumination; 1 Through the glass darkly: the phantasmagoria of Elephanta; 2 Four acts of seeing: the veil as technology of illumination; Part II: ‘Visibility is a trap’: battles of the veil; 3 ‘Purdah hai purdah! ’: proscenium theatre and technologies of illusionism; 4 Erotics of the body politic: the naked and the clothed; Part III: Chiaroscuro, portraiture and subjectivity; 5 Private lives and interior spaces: masculine subjects in Ravi Varma’s scholar paintings; 6 Impossible subjects: the subaltern in the shadows; Postscript; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 709.54; Art, Indic; Art, Colonial -- India; Light in art; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526139658; 9781526139641
• Related ISBNs: 9781526139634
• Notes: Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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