01966nam a22002537a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802800920007608200160016810000200018424500360020426000500024030000220029036500090031252011420032165000140146365000210147765000230149865000120152170000190153394200090155299900170156195201340157820240306120237.0240306b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781913107284  a: Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd.b: E/261, Shastri Nagar, Delhic: TB4070d: 2/3/2024  a631.541 SHA  aShaffer, Holly.  aGrafted Arts.c/ Holly Shaffer.  a, New Havanb: Yale University Pressc, 2022.  aix,298p.c: 30cm.  b3292  aGrafted Arts focuses on Maratha military rulers and British East India Company officials who used the arts to engage in diplomacy, wage war, compete for prestige, and generate devotion as they allied with (or fought against) each other to control western India in the eighteenth century. This book conceptualizes the artistic combinations that resulted as ones of “graft”―a term that acknowledges the violent and creative processes of suturing arts, and losing and gaining goods, as well as the shifting dynamics among agents who assembled such materials.
 
By tracing grafted arts from multiple perspectives―Maratha and British, artist and patron, soldier and collector―this book charts the methods of empire-building that recast artistic production and collection in western India and from there across India and in Britain. This mercenary method of artistry propagated mixed, fractured, and plundered arts. Indeed, these “grafted arts”―disseminated across India and Britain over the nineteenth century to aid in consolidating empire or revolting against it entirely―remain instigators of nationalist agitation today.  adiplomacy  aMaratha military  aBritish East India  aGrafted  aHolly Shaffer.  cBOOK  c61463d61463  00102ddc4070aSNULbSNULd2024-03-06eTechnical Bureau g3292.00l0o631.541 SHAp30098r2024-03-06 00:00:00w2024-03-06yBOOK