Empires of light : vision, visibility and power in colonial India /: vision, visibility and power in colonial India. (2019)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Empires of light : vision, visibility and power in colonial India /: vision, visibility and power in colonial India. (2019)
- Main Title:
- Empires of light : vision, visibility and power in colonial India
- 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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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.458280
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