The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur's Painted Lands and India's Eighteenth Century - Image 1

£48.32

Princeton University Press The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur's Painted Lands and India's Eighteenth Century

Name: The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur's Painted Lands and India's Eighteenth Century
Brand: Princeton University Press
Price: 46.59 GBP
Availability: InStock

Types of Architecture

Price History & Forecast

Last 32 days • 32 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 32 days • 5 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £50 (14 days, 43.8%)

Price range: £44 - £50

Price levels: 5 different prices over 32 days

Description

A look at the painting traditions of northwestern India in the eighteenth century, and what they reveal about the political and artistic changes of the era In the long eighteenth century, artists from Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India, specialized in depicting the vivid sensory ambience of its historic palaces, reservoirs, temples, bazaars, and durbars. As Mughal imperial authority weakened by the late 1600s and the British colonial economy became paramount by the 1830s, new patrons and mobile professionals reshaped urban cultures and artistic genres across early modern India. The Place of Many Moods explores how Udaipur's artworks-monumental court paintings, royal portraits, Jain letter scrolls, devotional manuscripts, cartographic artifacts, and architectural drawings-represent the period's major aesthetic, intellectual, and political shifts. Dipti Khera shows that these immersive objects powerfully convey the bhava-the feel, emotion, and mood-of specific places, revealing visions of pleasure, plenitude, and praise. These memorialized moods confront the ways colonial histories have recounted Oriental decadence, shaping how a culture and time are perceived. Illuminating the close relationship between painting and poetry, and the ties among art, architecture, literature, politics, ecology, trade, and religion, Khera examines how Udaipur's painters aesthetically enticed audiences of courtly connoisseurs, itinerant monks, and mercantile collectives to forge bonds of belonging to real locales in the present and to long for idealized futures. Their pioneering pictures sought to stir such emotions as love, awe, abundance, and wonder, emphasizing the senses, spaces, and sociability essential to the efficacy of objects and expressions of territoriality. The Place of Many Moods uncovers an influential creative legacy of evocative beauty that raises broader questions about how emotions and artifacts operate in constituting history and subjectivity, politics and place. Winner of the Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize, American Institute of Indian Studies

Key Features

The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur’s Painted Lands and India’s Eighteenth Century

Product type: ABIS BOOK

Brand: Princeton University Press

Product Specifications

Brand: Princeton University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0691201846
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Types of Architecture
Domain: Amazon UK
Publication Date: 26 November 2020
Listed Since: 02 March 2020

Barcode

No barcode data available

Princeton University Press The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur's Painted Lands and India's Eighteenth Century

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Monsoon Feelings: A History of Emotions in the Rain

Routledge - Spaces and Places in Western India - History Book

Rethinking Place in South Asian and Islamic Art, 1500-Present

Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason: Maps, Landscapes, Travelogues in Britain and India

The Routledge Handbook of the State in Premodern India

Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space - Duke University Press

Exploring Indian Modernities: Ideas and Practices

The Two Headed Deer – Illustrations of the Ramayana in Orissa: 34 (California Studies in the History of Art)

Routledge - Power, Presence and Space: South Asian Rituals

Indian Art History: Changing Perspectives

Affect and the Performative Dimension of Fear in the Indian English Novel: Tumults of the Imagination

Routledge - On Modern Indian Sensibilities Book

Moving Focus, India: New Perspectives on Modern & Contemporary Art

The Art of the New Urbanism, Volume 1: (1980 - 2010)

Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives, and Challenges

Reflections on Mughal Art & Culture

Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)

Displaying Time: The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India (Global South Asia)

Contemporary Expressions: Art of the Jogi Family

The Colours of Earth a Study of Indian Folk Painting

Modern Indian Painting: Jane and Kito de Boer Collection

Kipling in India: India in Kipling

Bakhtinian Explorations of Indian Culture: Pluralism, Dogma and Dialogue Through History

Routledge - Identities in South Asia: Conflicts and Assertions