Destination India: Foreign Artists in India 1857-1947, 9788196383381

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Destination India: Foreign Artists in India 1857-1947

Aditi Mazumdar (Author) Shashi Tharoor (Foroward)

Synopsis

This exhibition looks at the work of foreign artists who visited India between the Uprising (1857) and Independence (1947) as examples of a late phase of Orientalist art. The famous landscape painters of a much earlier era, such as William Hodges and Thomas and William Daniell, had clearly defined goals: they came in search of picturesque views of architecture and landscape. The artists who cam...

Contents: Foreword-Shahsi Tharoor, Director's Note-Ashish Anand, Introduction-Pheroza Godrej, Orientalist Painters in India-Giles Tillotson, Catalogue-Artist Profiles compiled by Aditi Mazumdar.

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About the author

Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor After taking his doctorate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston, Shashi Tharoor worked for the United Nations in various humanitarian, peace-keeping and management roles for nearly thirty years. He was Under- Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information during the tenure of Kofi Annan and was the runner up in the election to replace him in 2006. He is an acclaimed novelist, author and newspaper columnist. He has 11 books and hundreds of articles to his name. His non-fiction titles include Nehru, the Invention of India (2003) and India: from Midnight to the Millennium (1997). His novels include The Great Indian Novel (1989) and Riot (2001). He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Indian cricket, which he has followed avidly from afar, and has played in such cricketing hotbeds as Singapore and Geneva.

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