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Monday, 2 December 2019

Indian Art Exhibition



The Wallace Collection will shortly be opening an exhibition of eighteenth century Indian art connected to the East India Company.  This is another take on the Orientalism theme that suggests the whole thing is rather more complex and interesting that the standard Edward Said "colonial mastery" thing allows for.  Despite being notoriously exploitative even by eighteenth century standards, the EIC was a vehicle for creating a different style of art by Indian artists.

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