British Sculpture and the Company Raj: Church Monuments and Public Statuary in Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay to 1858University of Delaware Press, 1995 - 152 oldal "The British Raj (a Sanskrit-based word meaning dominion or empire), which has taken on a wholly Victorian flavor as a result of popular films and books, actually began in piecemeal fashion when the East India Company developed settlements in Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay during the seventeenth century. As these small enclaves grew into cities, the British tried hard to give them the look and feel of the country they had left behind." "Barbara Groseclose examines British public statuary and church monuments in India from the standpoint of its function in regard to the British themselves. Arguing that doubts and anxieties, as well as assumptions about their own place in Indian life, bear strongly on the roles and achievements for which the British sought or received commemoration, she analyzes the British self-characterizations of victor, administrator, scholar, and benefactor in sculptural imagery. Her close scrutiny of these largely forgotten works of art reveals the crucial part they played in helping the British to explain and justify empire to themselves. But the author's sense of the inherently ambivalent nature of the colonizer/colonized relationship prevents this book from becoming simply a platform for the indictment of imperialists or for an insistence on the wholesale victimization of their subjects. Rather, Groseclose discerns in this art some of the complicated emotional undertones simultaneously shaping and destabilizing the attempted economic and intellectual domination of India."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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Anglo-Indian Architecture artists Bayly Bengal Bombay Brahmin Brit Britain Britannia British in India British India British sculpture Britons Calcutta Cambridge Cathedral Chantrey Charles Christian church monuments City commemorative sculpture commissioned Company Raj Company's Cornwallis death deceased Delhi East India Company eighteenth century empire England English epitaph erected European Evangelical figure gain George George's governor-general Hastings Hindu honor House imperial inscription James John Bacon John Flaxman John's knowledge London look Madras Mary's memorial ment military missionaries monu monument in St monument to Lt monuments in India Moorhouse mourner mourning Mughal Muslim Mysore native nineteenth century officers Outram Oxford University Press painting pany Paul's Penny personifications portrait Presidency cities public statuary relief religious Richard Westmacott sculp sculpture in India sepoy servants social Society soldiers statue subcontinent suttee Swartz Thomas Thomas's thuggee tion tomb ture victory viewer visual Warren Hastings Wellesley Western Westminster Abbey William women
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26. oldal - GREAT nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts — the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others ; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last.
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Art and the British Empire T. J. Barringer,Geoff Quilley,Douglas Fordham Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2007 |