The British in India - the artist's view
October 12 2011
Picture: YCBA, Thomas Daniell, 'The Indian Rhinoceros', c.1790
An exhibition on the artistic legacy of the British in India has opened at the Yale Center for British Art. Adapting the Eye: An Archive of the British in India 1770-1830:
...explores the complex and multifaceted networks of British and Indian professional and amateur artists, patrons, and scholars in British India in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and their drive to create and organize knowledge for both aesthetic and political purposes. Selected from the Center’s rich holdings, the exhibition includes a diverse range of objects from both high art and popular culture, including albums, scrapbooks, prints, paintings, miniatures, and sculpture, demonstrating how collecting practices and artistic patronage in India during that period constituted a complex intersection of culture and power.
Rajtastic. Runs until December 31st.
