Indian Style/Postcards
Author : Suzanne Slesin
Publisher : Chronicle Books Llc
Page : pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 1990-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780877017721
Author : Suzanne Slesin
Publisher : Chronicle Books Llc
Page : pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 1990-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780877017721
Author : Emily Stevenson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 1003809596
Combining ethnographic and archival research, this book examines the lives of colonial-period postcards and reveals how they become objects of contemporary historical imagination in India. Picture postcards were circulated around the world in their billions in the early twentieth century and remained, until the advent of social media, unmatched as the primary means of sharing images alongside personal messages. This book, based on original research in Bengaluru, shows that their lives stretch from their initial production and consumption in the early 1900s into the present where they act as visual and material mediators in postcolonial productions of history, locality, and heritage against a backdrop of intense urban change. The book will be of interest to photographic historians, visual anthropologists, and art historians.
Author : Éléonore Muhidine
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3839467160
Focusing on a private collection of 60 postcards of modern architecture in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Agra, the contributors to this volume explore the many dimensions of modern architecture in India from the 1890s to the 1970s and share their own perspective on these objects. Experts on architectural history and visual studies, as well as postcard collectors provide new insights into a territory and its architectural heritage which is still largely unknown in Europe, and reflect on the postcard as a medium for historical research.
Author : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Indian art
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Author : Hamlyn
Publisher : Hamlyn
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780600634010
Author :
Publisher : Hamlyn
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2016-02-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780600633907
Featuring intricate patterns and stunning images inspired by the beauty and vibrancy India, these gorgeous postcards provide the perfect escape from the stresses of everyday life. After just a few moments of colouring in you will find calm returning. Each postcard is detachable, with a blank space for you to write a message, making them perfect for sharing with family and friends. This book is a must-have for budding artists, those who love colouring, or those simply looking for a way to relax.
Author : Omar Khan
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2018-05
Category :
ISBN : 9788189995850
* The first book on the subject of postcards in the Indian subcontinent* More than 500 professionally restored images* Chapters dedicated to cities and movementsPostcards were to people in 1900 what the Internet was to the world in 2000. The world went from a thousand to a billion postcards in a very short span of time, with the finest painters from India, Austria and Japan getting involved.Paper Jewels is the story of postcards during the Raj, and covers India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Burma. It is the first book on the subject and features hundreds of professionally-restored images in original format, weaving together the postcard artists, photographers, and publishers who define the rich history of the medium. The author's research also charts the history and progression of the technological aspects of postcard publishing and its key players. The concluding chapters explore the role postcards played in the Independence struggle, from the First Non-Cooperation Movement through the Dandi March and Partition. It includes some of the earliest cards of Mahatma Gandhi, Mohammed Ali Jinnah and other political figures. Many of the images in the book have not been seen since they were first published nearly a century ago. Published in association with The Alkazi Collection of Photography.
Author : Denise Allard
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 1997
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Eiteljorg Museum
Publisher : Dover Publications
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 1993-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486277899
Featuring prized examples of Native American handcrafts from the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art in Indianapolis. Among them: a Tlingit bear helmet (late 19th century), an intricately woven Apache storage basket (early 20th century) and an intriguing quilled shirt worn by the Sioux (1880)—each photographed in beautiful full color. Captions.
Author : Saloni Mathur
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 2007-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520941052
India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display maps for the first time a series of historical events—from the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day—through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the popular cultural arenas of the imperial metropole. Situated at the convergence of discussions in anthropology, art history, museum studies, and postcolonial criticism, this dynamic study investigates with vivid historical detail how Indian objects, bodies, images, and narratives circulated through metropolitan space and acquired meaning in an emergent nineteenth-century consumer economy. Through an examination of India as represented in department stores, museums, exhibitions, painting, and picture postcards of the era, the book carefully confronts the problems and politics of postcolonial display and offers an original and provocative account of the implications of colonial practices for visual production in our contemporary world.