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The brush of insight : artists and agency at the Mughal court
- Title
- The brush of insight : artists and agency at the Mughal court / Yael Rice.
- Author
- Rice, Yael
- Publication
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2023]
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Details
- Description
- ix, 258 pages : illustrations (colour), maps (colour); 27 cm
- Summary
- "Over the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Mughal court painters evolved from being mere illustrators of manuscripts and albums to mediating imperial visionary experience, assuming novel roles as imperial intimates. In Agents of Insight, Yael Rice traces this shift, demonstrating how royal artists created a new visual economy that featured highly naturalistic royal portraits, depictions of the emperors' dreams, and close, documentary studies of courtly gifts and rarities"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Inner visions : fragments from the unseen world -- 2. Workshop and empire : the invention of the Mughal painter -- 3. Forms of knowledge : the emperor's body and the artist's brush -- 4. World in a book : performance, creation, and the royal album -- Epilogue : from copy to trace.
- Call Number
- JQF 24-236
- ISBN
- 9780295751092
- 0295751096
- 9780295751085 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022038480
- OCLC
- 1316698972
- Author
- Rice, Yael, author.
- Title
- The brush of insight : artists and agency at the Mughal court / Yael Rice.
- Publisher
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Rice, Yael. Brush of insight. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2023] 9780295751085 (OCoLC)1378826109
- Research Call Number
- JQF 24-236