Forgotten masters , 2019
- Title(s):
- Forgotten masters : Indian painting for the East India Company / William Dalrymple ; with Lucian Harris, Rosie Llewellyn-Jones. J. P. Losty, H. J. Noltie, Malini Roy, Yuthika Sharma and Andrew Topsfield.
- Additional Title(s):
- Indian painting for the East India Company
- Published/Created:
- London : Philip Wilson Publishers, 2019.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryND2047 .D36 2019 (LC) OversizeAccessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
Note: Please contact the Reference Library to schedule an appointment [Email ycba.reference@yale.edu] - Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15923343
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company, The Wallace Collection, 4 December 2019 to 19 April 2020.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191).
"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. Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition of these masterworks at The Wallace Collection, this book celebrates the work of a series of extraordinary Indian artists, each with their own style and tastes and agency, all of whom worked for British patrons between the 1770s and the bloody end of the Mughal rule in 1857. 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"-- Dust jacket. - Subject Terms:
- Art and Design.Art museums.Art patronage.East India Company -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.East India Company -- Art patronage -- Exhibitions.East India Company.India.Painters -- India -- 18th century -- Biography -- Exhibitions.Painting, Indic.Watercolor painting -- India -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Exhibitions.Watercolor painting.
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- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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