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Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia: Vertiginous Exchange

Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia: Vertiginous Exchange

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Series: Routledge Research in Art and Race

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ISBN10: 1409409465
ISBN13: 9781409409465
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 15 2020
Pages: 236
Language: English

Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what are ideas of vertiginous collecting, art-making and museums as expanded fields, including wonder houses and missionary museums (or museobuses) in Britain and South Asia.

If the historiography of British India has privileged photography and the 'Imperial Picturesque', the emphasis here is on the formation of a creole modernity, one that considers the relationship between art and labour, including pearlescence and pearl fishing in Sri Lanka, and the iconoclastic/fetish debates and forms of collecting amongst missionaries. Eaton explores these themes alongside the genealogies and modernities of white(ness) in contemporary curating and amateur female practice, and how the museobus or museum as a unique object has informed the work of contemporary artist group Raqs Media Collective. 

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