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Book Description: Mapin, Ahmedabad, 2004. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First. 30 cms. Bookseller Inventory # 000622

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Book Description: Mapin Publishing, 2003. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. NA (illustrator). First edition. 24 x 28 cm. Traces of India investigates the roles played by representations of Indian architecture (primarily photographs but also prints and book illustrations) made between the late eighteenth century and the present day. Beyond the apparent purposes of these images as picturesque views, records of an architectural past, political memorials, travel mementos, textbook vignettes, deeper considerations influenced the way their makers worked, selecting, framing, composing, and populating their representations of these monuments. These images remain enduring records of minds as well as monuments. This book is an investigation of that deeper visual culture, showing us how `simple` images of buildings are in fact complex artefacts that reveal the ways their makers think. Twelve noted scholars working on photography, history, and the postcolonial discourse have contributed for this book : Julia Ballerini, Stephen Bann, Partha Chatterjee, Janet Dewan, Nicholas B. Dirks, John Falconer, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Narayani Gupta, Peter H. Hoffenberg, Thomas R. Metcalf, Christopher Pinney and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. CONTENTS: 1. Introduction/Maria Antonella Pelizzari 2. Map 3. From Stone to Paper : Photographs of Architecture and the Traces of History/Maria Antonella Pelizzari I. Projecting India 4. Antiquarianism, Visuality, and the Exotic Monument : William Hodges`s a Dissertation/Stephen Bann 5. Rites of Passage : a Frenchman`s Albums of British India/Julia Ballerini II. Capturing India`s past 6 The Compulsions of visual Representation in Colonial India/Tapati Guha-Thakurta 6. "This Noble Triumph of Photography" : Linnaeus Tripe`s Thanjavur Inscription Panorama/Janet Dewan 7. Pattern of Photographic Surveys : Joseph Lawton in Ceylon/John Falconer 8. Photography and Architecture at the Calcutta International Exhibition/Peter H. Hoffenberg III. Memorializing the Raj 9. Colonial Amnesia and the old Regime in the Photographs of Linnaeus tripe/Nicholas B. Dirks 10. Pictorializing the "Mutiny" of 1857/Narayani Gupta 11. Monuments and Memorials : Lord Curzon`s Creation of a past for the Raj/Thomas R. Metcalf IV. Remaining India 12. Some Indian "views of India" : the ethics of Representation/Christopher Pinney 13. The Sacred Circulation of National Images/Partha Chatterjee Notes. Chronology/Clare Backhouse Biographical notes : Photographers and Artists Working in India Bibliography/Sophie Gordon and Maria Antonella Pelizzari Printed Pages: 342. Bookseller Inventory # 1003

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Book Description: Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd. Book Condition: New. pp. 342 , 180 Illus. (Mostly Col.), Map Traces of India investigates the roles played by representations of Indian architecture (primarily photographs but also prints and book illustrations) made between the late eighteenth century and the present day. Beyond the apparent purposes of these images as picturesque views, records of an architectural past, political memorials, travel mementos, textbook vignettes, deeper considerations influenced the way their makers worked, selecting, framing, composing, and populating their representations of these monuments. These images remain enduring records of minds as well as monuments. This book. Bookseller Inventory # 7703259

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