British Art and the East India Company: 18 (Worlds of the East India Company) - Image 1

Price loading...

Boydell Press British Art and the East India Company: 18 (Worlds of the East India Company)

Name: British Art and the East India Company: 18 (Worlds of the East India Company)
Brand: Boydell Press

Themes & Concepts

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

Examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art, demonstrating how art and related forms of culture were closely tied to commerce and the rise of the commercial state. This book examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when a new "school" of British art was in its formative stages with the foundation of exhibiting societies and the Royal Academy in 1768. It focuses on the Company's patronage, promotion and uses of art, both in Britain and in India and the Far East, and how the Company and its trade with the East were represented visually, through maritime imagery, landscape, genre painting and print-making. It also considers how, for artists such as William Hodges and Arthur William Devis, the East India Company, and its provision of a wealthy market in British India, provided opportunities for career advancement, through alignment with Company commercial principles. In this light, the book's main concern is to address the conflicted and ambiguous nature of art produced in the service of a corporation that was the "scandal of empire" for most of its existence, and how this has shaped and distorted our understanding of the history of British art in relation to the concomitant rise of Britain as a self-consciously commercial and maritime nation, whose prosperity relied upon global expansion, increasing colonialism and the development of mercantile organisations.

Product Specifications

Brand: Boydell Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1783275103
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Themes & Concepts
Domain: Amazon UK
Publication Date: 18 September 2020
Listed Since: 31 October 2019

Barcode

No barcode data available

Boydell Press British Art and the East India Company: 18 (Worlds of the East India Company)

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600-1784: A Grand Strategic Interpretation (Worlds of the East India Company)

The Twilight of the East India Company: The Evolution of Anglo-Asian Commerce and Politics, 1790-1860

British Traders in the East Indies, 1770-1820: 'At Home in the Eastern Seas': 19 (Worlds of the East India Company)

The British Navy in Eastern Waters: The Indian and Pacific Oceans

English Accents: Interactions with British Art c. 1776-1855

Provincial Society and Empire: The Cumbrian Counties and the East Indies, 1680-1829: 14 (Worlds of the East India Company)

The English East India Company's Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750-1850: Economy, Empire and Business: 16 (Worlds of the East India Company)

An Empire of Images: Visual Culture and the British in India, 1688–1815

Routledge - The East India Company, 1600-1857 Essays

Naval Resistance to Britain's Growing Power in India, 1660-1800: The Saffron Banner and the Tiger of Mysore (Worlds of the East India Company)

Problems of Empire: Britain and India, 1757-1813: 4 (Routledge Library Editions: The British Empire)

Amsterdam University Press - Maritime World of Early Modern Britain

Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art

Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain (British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700)

Art in Britain 1660-1815 (The Yale University Press Pelican History) (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series)

The Great Uprising in India, 1857-58: Untold Stories, Indian and British (Worlds of the East India Company)

India in Art in Ireland: Ends of Empire, Medieval Manuscripts to Contemporary Photography (British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700)

The East India Company's Maritime Service, 1746-1834: Masters of the Eastern Seas (Worlds of the East India Company)

Visualising Protestant Monarchy: Ceremony, Art and Politics after the Glorious Revolution (1689-1714): 38 (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History)

Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850

Routledge Entrepreneurship in the Age of Empire Book

The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750–1820

Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture and the East India Company, 16001874

The East India Company's London Workers: Management of the Warehouse Labourers, 1800-1858 (Worlds of the East India Company)