Arts of south Asia : cultures of collecting /

This beautifully illustrated volume details how south Asian art has been acquired by public and private collectors in Europe, North America and Singapore from the mid-nineteenth century onward. It traces the various journeys and colonial legacies of artwork from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pak...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Peyton, Allysa B. (Editor), Paul, Katherine Anne (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2019]
Series:	David A. Cofrin Asian art manuscript series.
Subjects:	Arts, South Asian > History. Art, Asian > Collectors and collecting > History. Art > South Asia > History. Art museums > Collection management.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Allysa B. Peyton & Katharine Anne Paul
"Relating to a country so distant": collecting South Asian arms and armour at the Tower of London during the nineteenth century / Natasha Bennett
Objects across empire: the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto / Deepali Dewan
Colonial collecting in Ceylon: dispersing the Hugh Nevill collections across the British Isles / Sushma Jansari
"We want quality and condition": the formation of Chester Beatty's South Asian manuscripts and miniatures collection / Hyder Abbas
Collecting with Éclat: Coomaraswamy and the framing of Indian art in American museums / Brinda Kumar
Nasli Heeramaneck: the consummate collector and connoisseur / Pratapaditya Pal
Masterworks of South Asian art at the Newark Museum: from missionaries, merchants, and medical women and men / Katherine Anne Paul
Collecting and curating Indian art in Southeast Asia: the Asian Civilisations Museum and the Indian Heritage Centre, Singapore / Gauri Parimoo Krishnan
Returning "home": the journey and afterlife of repatriated objects / Melody Rod-Ari
Appendix A. Publicly accessible collections of South Asian art outside Sout Asia
Appendix B. Higher education programs for South Asian studies
Appendix C. Selected histories of global collecting.