Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Description
Monuments, objects, histories surveys the practices of archaeology, art history, and museums in nineteenth- and twentieth-century india it looks at processes by which 'lost pasts' came to be produced in india such lost pasts, the author shows, came to be imagined around a corpus of monuments, archaeological relics, and art objects this book reveals the scholarly and institutional authority that emerged around such structures and artifacts, making them not only the chosen objects of art and archaeology but also signifiers of a nations civilization and antiquity the close relationsh...
ISBN(s)
8178241870, 9788178241876
