Empires of light : vision, visibility and power in colonial India / Niharika Dinkar.
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TextSeries: Rethinking art's historiesPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019Description: 304 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781526139634 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Ravi Varma, 1848-1906 -- Criticism and interpretation | Art, Indic | Art, Colonial -- India | Light in art | Art and Design | Art and DesignDDC classification: 709.5'4 Summary: A study of light, vision and power in colonial India. It examines the material cultures of light within imperial networks, drawing the colonial experience into contemporary debates on vision and optics to provide an art historical account of how a modern consciousness was forged amidst these dramatic transformations.
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A study of light, vision and power in colonial India. It examines the material cultures of light within imperial networks, drawing the colonial experience into contemporary debates on vision and optics to provide an art historical account of how a modern consciousness was forged amidst these dramatic transformations.
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