ACSAA-Edinburgh 2019 by Yuthika Sharma
Join us for the first transatlantic iteration of ACSAA in Edinburgh, Scotland!
https://acsaa-sym... more Join us for the first transatlantic iteration of ACSAA in Edinburgh, Scotland!
https://acsaa-symposium.eca.ed.ac.uk/
https://acsaa-symposium.eca.ed.ac.uk/programme
Registration for day attendance is available.
American Council for Southern Asian Art Symposium XIX
November 6-9, 2019
University of Edinburgh
ACSAA symposia occur in alternating years, and serve as opportunities to meet colleagues, reconnect with mentors and graduate school cohorts, and share one's current research with the field. From senior scholars to graduate students, ACSAA symposia are one of the primary ways ACSAA members gather and support one another, share ideas in collegial environment, and participate in the ACSAA community.
Papers by Yuthika Sharma
Annapurna Garimella, ed. The Long Arc of South Asian Art: Essays in Honour of Vidya Dehejia, Women Unlimited, 2022
This essay focuses on the representation of performers in the context of 19th century Anglo-Mugha... more This essay focuses on the representation of performers in the context of 19th century Anglo-Mughal Delhi. Touching upon Dehejia's concerns of the medieval body and of spectatorship, it draws attention to the portraiture of nautch women providing dance entertainment, to explore how their performative selves embodied a modality of resistance to the colonial gaze.
Choice Reviews Online, 2012
Between the years 1707 and 1857, the cultural center of Delhi in North India was the locus of a d... more Between the years 1707 and 1857, the cultural center of Delhi in North India was the locus of a dramatic shift of power with the decline of the Mughal Empire and the rise of the British Raj. This critical transitional period altered Indian culture, politics, and art, and brought unprecedented artistic innovation and experimentation. The artistic flowering of this time is evident in jewel-like portraits, miniature paintings, striking panoramas, and exquisite decorative arts crafted for Mughal emperors and European residents alike. Sumptuous color illustrations of such works illuminate the pages of this book, painting a vivid portrait of this important city and its art, artists, and patrons. Masterworks by major Mughal artists, such as Nidha Mal and Ghulam Ali Khan, and works by non-Mughal artists demonstrate the dynamic interplay of artistic production at this time. This largely overlooked period is explored in thought-provoking essays by a panel of distinguished scholars of Indian art, history, and literature to present an engaging look at this dynamic artistic culture in the midst of rapid change.
William Dalrymple, Ed. Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company, Wallace Collection, 2019
Giles Tillotson, Ed. Oriental Scenery: Aquatints of India by Thomas Daniell and William Daniell, DAG: New Delhi. , 2019
Crispin Branfoot, Ed. Portraiture in India since the Mughals: Art, History, Representation. I.B. Tauris., 2018
To what extent were portraits made for EIC officers informed by emerging colonial policies on the... more To what extent were portraits made for EIC officers informed by emerging colonial policies on the ground? This paper looks at the small segment of rural portraits in the Fraser Album offering a deeper look into the different factors at play in the creation of these portraits.
The narrative of Mughal visual culture has long been shaped by the fortunes of the Mughal state. ... more The narrative of Mughal visual culture has long been shaped by the fortunes of the Mughal state. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Mughal Empire occupied a position of utmost political, economic, and demographic dominance in South Asia. This chapter takes the beginning of the reign of Alamgir (also known as Aurangzeb, r. 1658-1707) as its point of departure and concludes with the official end of Mughal rule in 1858. It considers the nature of Mughal visual culture over a 200-year span and the shifts from early modernity to modernity that defined this period. In art historical literature, Shah Jahan is rightly characterized as a great patron of art and architecture, sponsoring such impressive monuments as the Taj Mahal, the Mughal palace-fortresses at Agra and Delhi, and such lavish manuscripts as the famed “Windsor” Padshahnama, an illustrated chronicle of Shah Jahan's reign.
The East India Company at Home,1757-1857: The British country house in an imperial and global context, Feb 2018
Yuthika Sharma and Pauline Davies, The East India Company and the Indian Ocean Material World at ... more Yuthika Sharma and Pauline Davies, The East India Company and the Indian Ocean Material World at Osterley. Margot Finn and Kate Smith, Eds. The East India Company at Home,1757-1857: The British country house in an imperial and global context. (London: UCL Press, 2018).
Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World, 2018
Mughal Delhi on my lapel: The charmed life of the painted ivory miniature in Delhi, 1827-1880 in ... more Mughal Delhi on my lapel: The charmed life of the painted ivory miniature in Delhi, 1827-1880 in by Supriya Chaudhuri, Josephine McDonagh, Brian H. Murray and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan eds. Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World, Routledge, 2018.
W Dalrymple and Y Sharma, Eds. Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707-1857, Yale University Press, Feb 2012
Alka Patel and Karen Leonard, Eds. Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition (2012), 2012
Journal of Urban Design, 2009
Vidya Dehejia. Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publications, 2008., 2008
Exhibitions by Yuthika Sharma
The exhibition features the creation of the specific visual languages of five of the world religi... more The exhibition features the creation of the specific visual languages of five of the world religions: Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. The imagery still used by these belief systems today is evidence for the development of distinct religious identities in Late Antiquity. Emblematic visual forms, such as the figures of Buddha or Christ, or Islamic aniconism, only evolved in dialogue with a variety of coexisting visualizations of the sacred. As late antique believers appropriated some competing models and rejected others, they created compelling and long-lived representations of faith, but also revealed their indebtedness to a multitude of contemporaneous religious ideas and images.
Exhibition July 28-Nov 4, 2017
EoF Conference Presentations and Events by Yuthika Sharma
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE by Yuthika Sharma
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ACSAA-Edinburgh 2019 by Yuthika Sharma
https://acsaa-symposium.eca.ed.ac.uk/
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Registration for day attendance is available.
American Council for Southern Asian Art Symposium XIX
November 6-9, 2019
University of Edinburgh
ACSAA symposia occur in alternating years, and serve as opportunities to meet colleagues, reconnect with mentors and graduate school cohorts, and share one's current research with the field. From senior scholars to graduate students, ACSAA symposia are one of the primary ways ACSAA members gather and support one another, share ideas in collegial environment, and participate in the ACSAA community.
Papers by Yuthika Sharma
Exhibitions by Yuthika Sharma
EoF Conference Presentations and Events by Yuthika Sharma
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE by Yuthika Sharma
https://acsaa-symposium.eca.ed.ac.uk/
https://acsaa-symposium.eca.ed.ac.uk/programme
Registration for day attendance is available.
American Council for Southern Asian Art Symposium XIX
November 6-9, 2019
University of Edinburgh
ACSAA symposia occur in alternating years, and serve as opportunities to meet colleagues, reconnect with mentors and graduate school cohorts, and share one's current research with the field. From senior scholars to graduate students, ACSAA symposia are one of the primary ways ACSAA members gather and support one another, share ideas in collegial environment, and participate in the ACSAA community.