Research Catalog

Title

Rethinking place in South Asian and Islamic art, 1500-present / edited by Deborah S. Hutton and Rebecca M. Brown.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

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Additional Authors

• Hutton, Deborah S.
• Brown, Rebecca M.

Description

xvii, 267 pages; 26 cm

Summary

Place plays a fundamental role in the structuring of the discipline of Art History. And yet, place also limits the questions art historians can ask and impairs analysis of objects and locations in the interstices of established, ossified categories. The chapters in this interdisciplinary volume investigate place in all of its dynamism and complexity: several call into question traditional constructions regarding place in Art History, while others explore the fundamental role that place plays in lived experience. The particular nexus for this collection lies at the intersection and overlap of two major subfields in the history of art: South Asia and the Islamic world, both of which are seemingly geographically determined, yet at the same time uncategorizable as place with their ever-shifting and contested borders. The eleven chapters brought together here move from the early modern through to the contemporary, and span particular monuments and locations ranging from Asia and Europe to Africa and the Americas. 0The chapters take on the question of place as it operates in more obvious settings, such as architectural monuments and exhibitionary contexts, while also probing the way place operates when objects move or when the very place they exist in transforms dramatically. This volume engages place through the movement of objects, the evocation of senses, desires, and memories and the on-going project of articulating the parameters of place and location.

Subject

• Place (Philosophy) in art
• Place (Philosophy) in architecture
• Art, South Asian > Themes, motives
• Islamic art > Themes, motives
• Architecture > South Asia > Themes, motives
• Islamic architecture > Themes, motives

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JQF 16-1641

ISBN

• 9781472466341
• 1472466349

LCCN

2016017297

OCLC

YBP 2016017297

Title

Rethinking place in South Asian and Islamic art, 1500-present / edited by Deborah S. Hutton and Rebecca M. Brown.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hutton, Deborah S., editor.

Brown, Rebecca M., editor.

Research Call Number

JQF 16-1641