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Views of Difference - Different Views of Art (Paperback)
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Views of Difference - Different Views of Art (Paperback)
Series: Art and Its Histories Series
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In a fascinating series of case studies, this book looks at the
ways in which European colonizers interpreted the arts of the
people they colonized, as well the ways in which they have tended
to view art produced by the colonized and their descendants in
post-colonial times. In the European colonial past, the dominant
view of "difference" represented the culture of the colonized as
inferior and inalterable or slow to change. This book discusses
perspectives on pre-colonial Indian art expressed in the
mid-nineteenth century, the early twentieth century, and the
present day. It also considers the effects of imperialist ways of
looking even in places without direct European colonial control.
European colonizers tended to see their own artistic traditions as
continually progressing but the art of colonized or non-European
peoples as traditional and incapable of generating its own
modernity. And, the studies in the book show, colonizers and their
heirs in the twentieth century have doubted that a colonial subject
could appropriate European art forms or handle them independently-a
view that continues to uphold the notion of modernity as a
"Europeans only" enterprise. This is the fifth volume in the series
Art and its Histories, created to accompany the Open University
undergraduate course by the same title. Published in association
with the Open University
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