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Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company Hardcover – January 28, 2020
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As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company officials from Indian painters who had previously worked for the Mughals. Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition of these masterworks at The Wallace Collection, this book celebrates the work of a series of extraordinary Indian artists, each with their own style and tastes and agency, all of whom worked for British patrons between the 1770s and the bloody end of the Mughal rule in 1857.
Edited by writer and historian William Dalrymple, these hybrid paintings explore both the beauty of the Indian natural world and the social realities of the time in one hundred masterpieces, often of astonishing brilliance and originality. They shed light on a forgotten moment in Anglo-Indian history during which Indian artists responded to European influences while keeping intact their own artistic visions and styles. These artists represent the last phase of Indian artistic genius before the onset of the twin assaults - photography and the influence of western colonial art schools - ended an unbroken tradition of painting going back two thousand years. As these masterworks show, the greatest of these painters deserve to be remembered as among the most remarkable Indian artists of all time.
- Print length192 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPhilip Wilson Publishers
- Publication dateJanuary 28, 2020
- Dimensions9.66 x 0.92 x 11.32 inches
- ISBN-101781301018
- ISBN-13978-1781301012
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- Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers (January 28, 2020)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 192 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1781301018
- ISBN-13 : 978-1781301012
- Item Weight : 2.93 pounds
- Dimensions : 9.66 x 0.92 x 11.32 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #482,574 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #303 in India History
- #496 in Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions
- #2,233 in Art History (Books)
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William Dalrymple FRSL, FRGS, FRAS (born William Hamilton-Dalrymple on 20 March 1965) is a Scottish historian and writer, art historian and curator, as well as a prominent broadcaster and critic.
His books have won numerous awards and prizes, including the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Hemingway, the Kapuściński and the Wolfson Prizes. He has been four times longlisted and once shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. He is also one of the co-founders and co-directors of the annual Jaipur Literature Festival.
In 2012 he was appointed a Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in the Humanities by Princeton University. In the Spring of 2015 he was appointed the OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer at Brown University.
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Its reproduction of artworks and well-researched text add to the treasure.
We all need to know more about this exceedingly fine art.
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Very glad I did. It arrived quickly without any delay and I am still enjoying the illustrations and narrative.
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