Forgotten Masters : Indian Painting for the East India Company, Hardcover by ...

by William Dalrymple

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Forgotten Masters : Indian Painting for the East India Company, Hardcover by Dalrymple, William; Harris, Lucian (CON); Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie (CON); Losty, J. p. (CON); Noltie, H. J. (CON), ISBN 1781301018, ISBN-13 9781781301012, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 sho

• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, The Limited
• Year: 2020
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781781301012
• Condition: Fine

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