In this fascinating study, Partha Mitter traces the history of European reactions to Indian art, from the earliest encounters of explorers with the exotic. East to the more sophisticated but still incomplete appreciations of the early twentieth century. Mitter's new Preface reflects upon the profound changes in Western interpretations of non-Western societies over the past fifteen years.
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Partha Mitter teaches at the University of Sussex. He was a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. He has just completed a book on art and nationalism in colonial India.
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A good and concise details of european travellers to India,
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This review is from: Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art (Paperback)
This is a must have book for anyone interested in euro-centric outlook towards India and Indic traditions.Sadly, this tendency is still prevalent in many areas of scholarship on Indic traditions. Kudos to the author and the publisher for a path-breaking work.
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A rivetting tale of the Western bias of Indian art/culture.,
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This review is from: Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art (Paperback)
In this very scholarly and gripping account of the Western stereotyping of Indian art and culture, the author demonstrates how very little has changed in the last 700 years since the first written accounts of Indian culture appeared in the writings of the travelers to India. The main problem seems to be that Westerners do not have an appropriate framework to objectively assess and apppreciate the pluralistic themes and the rich textures that Indian art and culture represent. Consequently, the early writers had to resort to narrow Christian medievalism for their distorted vision of India, and more recently, to myopic rationalism and pretentious scholarship--all of which have contributed to the total "failure" in the Western interpretation of India. This is a great book that exposes Western (especially American) superciliousness that continues to plague the Westerners' intolerance for other cultures.
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AT the very end of his classic study of the profound influence which the discovery of Indian civilization had on Europe in the nineteenth century, Raymond Schwab noted with regret one dark spot which stained the general picture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dos indios orientais, monster stereotypes, monster tradition, renaissance orientale, phallic rites, great pagoda, picturesque movement, appreciative account, ten incarnations, ornamental art, cave temples, phallic cults, des merveilles, see infra, see supra Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Rám Ráz, Marco Polo, East India Company, China Illustrata, Owen Jones, Sir William Jones, British Museum, Maria Graham, Oriental Scenery, Valley Perilous, Asiatic Researches, Great Exhibition, Henry Cole, Old Testament, Worship of Priapus, Charles Townley, Richard Payne Knight, Sir Thomas Roe, South Kensington Museum, Ardhanarisvara Siva, Bibliothèque Nationale, Henry Lord, Industrial Revolution, Lord Valentia New!
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AT the very end of his classic study of the profound influence which the discovery of Indian civilization had on Europe in the nineteenth century, Raymond Schwab noted with regret one dark spot which stained the general picture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dos indios orientais, monster stereotypes, monster tradition, renaissance orientale, phallic rites, great pagoda, picturesque movement, appreciative account, ten incarnations, ornamental art, cave temples, phallic cults, des merveilles, see infra, see supra Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Rám Ráz, Marco Polo, East India Company, China Illustrata, Owen Jones, Sir William Jones, British Museum, Maria Graham, Oriental Scenery, Valley Perilous, Asiatic Researches, Great Exhibition, Henry Cole, Old Testament, Worship of Priapus, Charles Townley, Richard Payne Knight, Sir Thomas Roe, South Kensington Museum, Ardhanarisvara Siva, Bibliothèque Nationale, Henry Lord, Industrial Revolution, Lord Valentia New!
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- Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India (Cultures of History) by Tapati Guha-Thakurta on 4 pages
- Sacred Traces: British Explorations of Buddhism in South Asia (Histories of Visions) (Histories of Visions) by Janice Leoshko in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society) by Daud Ali in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Anti-Disciplinary Protest: Sixties Radicalism and Postmodernism by Julie Stephens in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sites of Exchange: European Crossroads and Faultlines (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 103) ... & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft) by Maurizio Ascari on page 63
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