| #2518663 in eBooks | 2004-07-06 | 2004-07-06 | File type: PDF|||Guha-Thakurta has the rare ability to present extremely passionate issues in clear prose and to offer a well-thought-out position...This wonderful book will surely play an essential role in all future discussions of Indian art. (David Carrier CAA s)
Art history as it is largely practiced in Asia as well as in the West is a western invention. In India, works of art-sculptures, monuments, paintings-were first viewed under colonial rule as archaeological antiquities, later as architectural relics, and by the mid-20th century as works of art within an elaborate art-historical classification. Tied to these views were narratives in which the works figured, respectively, as sources from which to recover India's his...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India (Cultures of History) | Tapati Guha-Thakurta. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
