Monuments, Objects, Histories
Tapati Guha-Thakurta
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Monuments, Objects, Histories
Published
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pages
431
ISBN-13
9781281894298
Description
"Monuments, Objects, Histories is a critical survey of the practices of archaeology, art history, and museums in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. The essays gathered here look at the processes of the production of lost pasts in modern India: pasts that come to be imagined around a growing corpus of monuments, archaeological relics, and art objects. They map the scholarly and institutional authority that emerged around such structures and artifacts, making of them not only the chosen objects of art and archaeology but also the prime signifiers of the nation's civilization and antiquity." "Monuments, Objects, Histories traces the framing of an official national canon of Indian art through these different periods, showing how the workings of disciplines and institutions have been tied to the pervasive authority of the nation. At the same time, it addresses the radical reconfiguration in recent times of the meaning and scope of the "national," leading to the kinds of exclusions and chauvinisms that lie at the root of the current endangerment of these disciplines and the monuments and art objects they encompass."--BOOK JACKET.
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This edition of Monuments, Objects, Histories has approximately 431 pages. Please note, this is an estimate and the exact page count can vary between hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions.
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Who is the author of Monuments, Objects, Histories?
Monuments, Objects, Histories was written by Tapati Guha-Thakurta.
When was Monuments, Objects, Histories published?
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