The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector, 1600-1860

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Synopsis
The Art of a Corporation is a comprehensive study of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company from the early seventeenth to the midnineteenth centuries. These items range from oil paintings on canvas and marble statuary, to sandstone Buddhas and metal figurines of Hindu deities. The book takes a chronological approach and focuses on provenance to show that objects are valuable primary resources for understanding the East India Company’s history. The artworks illustrate how one of the longest-surviving multinational corporations in the Western world changed over its three-century history and provide a powerful visual account of its perpetually reinvented image. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of art history, colonial art, colonial studies, British history, economic history, business history, South Asian history, post-colonial studies, and cultural studies. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.
Copyright:
2023

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781000869491
Related ISBNs:
9781003379515, 9781032361178, 9781032478654
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Jennifer Anne Howes
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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