Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition 'In the Dawn of Modernity in India' at the Fukuoka Asian Museum of Art, held in collaboration with the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. The exhibition is the fifth in the 'Modern Artists' series and presents Company Paintings, products of encounters between India and Britain during the 18th and 19th centuries made mostly by anonymous artists. Work descriptions and exhibition checklist included.
Onsite
English, 
Japanese
miniature painting,  portraiture,  colonialism,  group exhibition,  India,  Company School,  colonial painting,  government collection
2009
48
Nil
2
catalogue
Introduction: Traditional Miniatures
Chapter 1: Encountering the West
Chapter 2: Making of the Modern Gaze — Naturalism and Photography
Chapter 3: Portraiture in Transformation
Chapter 4: Capturing India — Projected Illusions and Ethnographic Gaze
Chapter 5: Folk Art and Modernity
Chapter 6: Print Media and the Popularization of Images
Epilogue: Early Oil Paintings in India
The Visual Amalgamation - Rajeev LOCHAN, Latika GUPTA
The Modernity of the Anonymous Artists — Company Paintings of India - Lisa HORIKAWA, 堀川理沙
India's Traditional Miniature Painting - Yuko YAMAKI, 山木裕子
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