The Art of a Corporation

The East India Company as Patron and Collector, 1600-1860
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-36117-8
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

The Art of a Corporation is a comprehensive study of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company from the early seventeenth to the midnineteenth centuries. These items range from oil paintings on canvas and marble statuary, to sandstone Buddhas and metal figurines of Hindu deities. The book takes a chronological approach and focuses on provenance to show that objects are valuable primary resources for understanding the East India Company’s history. The artworks illustrate how one of the longest-surviving multinational corporations in the Western world changed over its three-century history and provide a powerful visual account of its perpetually reinvented image.

This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of art history, colonial art, colonial studies, British history, economic history, business history, South Asian history, post-colonial studies, and cultural studies.

Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Howes, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

1 Chaos to confidence

2 Landscape and imperialism

3 Romans

4 Scandals

5 Indian sculpture

6 Bureaucracy

7 Continuities

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Howes is a London-based art historian who specialises in the art and architecture of India’s colonial period.