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The Artificial Empire - The Indian Landscapes of William Hodges (Paperback)
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The Artificial Empire - The Indian Landscapes of William Hodges (Paperback)
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The role of the visual arts in the assertion of European colonial
power has been the subject of much recent investigation and
redefinition. This book takes as a ground for discussion the
representation of Indian scenery and architecture by British
artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It
includes the work of a diversity of artists from the Daniells to
Edward Lear, but central to the study is a particular focus on
William Hodges, a pioneer in the field who enjoyed a close
association with Britain's first Governor General in India, Warren
Hastings, and whose impressive body of work as draughtsman, painter
and writer formed a crucial legacy for later artists. The book
includes many of his paintings and drawings rarely or never
previously published, and analyses his art and writing in relation
to the intellectual and aesthetic ideas of his time. The paintings
and drawings discussed here are shown to be complex objects,
standing in a necessarily complex relationship with historical
events and ideas. This relationship is explored and defined fully,
to present a new intervention in post-colonial cultural theory.
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