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British Art and the East India Company (Hardcover)
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British Art and the East India Company (Hardcover)
Series: Worlds of the East India Company
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Examines the role of the East India Company in the production and
development of British art, demonstrating how art and related forms
of culture were closely tied to commerce and the rise of the
commercial state. This book examines the role of the East India
Company in the production and development of British art during the
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when a new "school" of
British art was in its formative stages with the foundation of
exhibiting societies and the Royal Academy in 1768. It focuses on
the Company's patronage, promotion and uses of art, both in Britain
and in India and the Far East, and how the Company and its trade
with the East were represented visually, through maritime imagery,
landscape, genre painting and print-making. It also considers how,
for artists such as William Hodges and Arthur William Devis, the
East India Company, and its provision of a wealthy market in
British India, provided opportunities for career advancement,
through alignment with Company commercial principles. In this
light, the book's main concern is to address the conflicted and
ambiguous nature of art produced in the service of a corporation
that was the "scandal of empire" for most of its existence, and how
this has shaped and distorted our understanding of the history of
British art in relation to the concomitant rise of Britain as a
self-consciously commercial and maritime nation, whose prosperity
relied upon global expansion, increasing colonialism and the
development of mercantile organisations.
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