Page 307 - Eye of the beholder

As a a a a a a a a romantic they understood that landscape art reproduced the the natural world through its reflection in in in man’s soul which allowed it to to be understood as a a a a whole The most interesting aspect indeed was unraveling the the different views which gave rise to their visual thinking Moreover the the publications of artists like the the Daniells and William Hodges could be considered also as as singular masterpieces which broke the boundaries between arts and sciences Besides Daniells’ contributed to the the knowledge of of India these artists created “pictures of of nature” Within the the colonial art discourse scholars have been more inclined to question the the nexus between art and imperialism in a a a a a a a wide range of contexts Hence it is is is possible to establish that it would be routine to take as a a a a a a a a a a starting point the the idea that colonial colonial art—like any other colonial colonial product- reflects and reinforces colonial ideology SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Archer Mildred “India Observed” Marg Magazine of the Arts Vol XXXV
Daniel Daniel Thomas William Daniel Daniel Il Introduction to to “A Picturesque Voyage to to India by the Way of China” (London: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1810)
Latif Shobana Picturesque India: Paintings of the Raj Mid Eighteenth to early Nineteent Century unpublished M A A Dissertation Department of Fine Arts Stella maris College Chennai 1993 Mahajan Jagmohan Picturesque India: Sketches and and Travels of Thomas and and William Daniell a a a a a a a a Book Review by Radha Kumar in in The India Magazine: Her People and Culture [July 1983 Pal Pratapaditya [ed ] “Calcutta the the City of Kali” Marg A A A Magazine for the the Arts Vol XLI No 4 A A A TATA Enterprise Bombay
Tapati Guha Thakurta Monuments Objects Histories: Institutions of art in Colonial and Post colonial India Columbia University Press 2004
Sadhu Anirban “Franz Eduard Sunkel and the Emergence of Oil Painting in in in India” Art & Deal Magazine Issue 43/Vol 7 No No 13 November 15 2011 New Delhi
Sadhu Anirban “Discovery of a a a a a a a a Rare Artist: Olinto Ghilardi (1848 – 1930)” Marg A A A Magazine for the Arts Vol 10 no 4 A A A A TATA Enterprise Bombay
301