2003, ISBN: 9780300098969

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Montréal/New Haven/London : Canadian Centre for Architecture/Yale University Press], Original cloth, dust jacket, (full-page) illustrations in colour and b/w. This b… More...

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Montréal/New Haven/London : Canadian Centre for Architecture/Yale University Press], Original cloth, dust jacket, (full-page) illustrations in colour and b/w. This book investigates the different cultural roles played by photographs of Indian architecture from the latter half of the nineteenth century, an inquiry stretching from their pre-history to their migration into book illustrations, calendar art, and religious imagery. Beyond the apparent purposes of these images - as picturesque views, scientific records of an architectural past, political memorials, travel mementos, textbook vignettes - deeper considerations influenced the way their makers worked in selecting, framing, composing, and populating their representations. Shaping the viewer's thinking about what they represented, these images remain enduring records of a way of seeing, of minds as well as monuments, and exist today as artefacts of the visual culture of colonialism. Twelve essays from scholars working in several disciplines (history, anthropology, art history, and the history of photography) show how photographs of architecture reveal the inescapable ways in which the practice of image making is aligned with the purposes of power, the presumptions accompanying the encounter with strangeness, the internal order of the colonial and the scientific mind, and even our metaphysical dispositions toward the world., NL, [SC: 4.95], Gut, gewerbliches Angebot, 342, Banküberweisung, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung, Internationaler Versand<

ISBN: 9780300098969

First edition hardcover, which is in fine condition. Dust jacket shows very minor signs of shelf wear along the top edge (see photos). Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box … More...

First edition hardcover, which is in fine condition. Dust jacket shows very minor signs of shelf wear along the top edge (see photos). Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it via USPS Priority with tracking.This interdisciplinary book investigates the roles played by representations of Indian architecture made between the late eighteenth century and the present day. This handsome volume discusses how photographs can be read not just as records of an architectural past but as complex artifacts of the cultural and political forces shaping colonial India. The diverse contributors to the book, from post-colonial theorists to museum curators, examine the connections between photography and architecture through the visual culture of colonialism.The volume explores subjects ranging from representations of landmarks of India from picturesque views to travel mementos, photographs as memorials of historical events, and contemporary popular images. Illustrated with some 180 photographs, many rare or little known, the book offers an appealing and fresh view of colonial images as seen through postcolonial eyes. The volume also includes an extensive bibliography of literature of nineteenth-century photography in South Asia., YC British Art, 5<

2003, ISBN: 9780300098969

Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreál, 2003. Book. Fine Condition. Cloth. 342 pages 183 illustrations 110 in color. Foreword by Nicholas Olsberg. Chronology by Clare Backhouse. Biogr… More...

Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreál, 2003. Book. Fine Condition. Cloth. 342 pages 183 illustrations 110 in color. Foreword by Nicholas Olsberg. Chronology by Clare Backhouse. Biographical Notes. Bibliography by Sophie Gordon and Maria Antonella Pelizzari. ., Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreál, 2003, 5<