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Much maligned monsters : a history of European reactions to Indian art

Title: Much maligned monsters : a history of European reactions to Indian art / by Partha Mitter with a new preface.
Author: Mitter, Partha.
Publication: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.

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Description

xxiii, 351 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

In this fascinating study, Partha Mitter traces the history of European reactions to Indian art, from the earliest encounters of explorers with the exotic. East to the more sophisticated but still incomplete appreciations of the early twentieth century. Mitter's new Preface reflects upon the profound changes in Western interpretations of non-Western societies over the past fifteen years.

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Genre/Form

Hochschulschrift.

Note

Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1977.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-343) and index.

Contents

I. Indian Art in Travellers' Tales. (i). Much Maligned Monsters. (ii). Wonders of Elephanta. (iii). Paganism Revealed -- II. Eighteenth Century Antiquarians and Erotic Gods -- III. Orientalists, Picturesque Travellers, and Archaeologists. (i). Anquetil-Duperron, Niebuhr, Le Gentil, and Sonnerat. (ii). The Sublime, the Picturesque, and Indian Architecture. (iii). India and the Rise of Scientific Archaeology. (iv). From Reynolds to Ram Raz -- IV. Historical and Philosophical Interpretations of Indian Art. (i). The Debate on the Origin of the Arts. (ii). Creuzer and Hegel -- V. The Victorian Interlude. (i). Owen Jones and the New School of Industrial Design. (ii). John Ruskin and William Morris -- VI. Towards the Twentieth Century: A Reassessment of Present Attitudes -- Appendix 1: Outline of Early European Collections of Indian Art -- Appendix 2: On Elephanta and Salsette from Castro's Roteiro.

ISBN

0226532399
9780226532394

LCCN

91047595

OCLC

ocm25095191
25095191
SCSB-1974431

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library