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Woman's eye, woman's hand: making art and architecture in modern India : a collection of essays

Woman's eye, woman's hand: making art and architecture in modern India : a collection of essays
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ISBN 938101714X (hbk.)
9789381017142 (hbk.)
Title Woman's eye, woman's hand : making art and architecture in modern India : a collection of essays / edited by D. Fairchild Ruggles
Publisher New Delhi : Zubaan, an imprint of Kali for Women, 2014
Physical desc. vi, 229 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm.
Note CBL illustrations: back cover (In 74.7).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction: In the presence of women / D. Fairchild Ruggles -- Reading place through patronage: Begum Samru's building campaign in early nineteenth-century India / Alisa Eimen -- Breaking the rules: purdah, self-expression and the patronage of Maharanis in Jaipur / Caroline B. Asher -- The buildings of the begums of Bhopal: 'Islamic' architecture in a nineteenth-century Indian princely state / Barbara D. Metcalf -- Memorial parks to Begum Hazrat Mahal and Mayawati in Lucknow: cultural landscape and political ideologies / Amita Sinha -- Making women (in)visible? homespun in the nationalist politics of dress and identity in modern India, 1917-1935 / Lisa Trivedi -- Seen through a screen: Doris Duke's patronage of South Asian artists / Sharon Littlefield -- Thinking through pictures: a Kantian reading of Amrita Sher-Gil's self-portrait as Tahitian / Pradeep A. Dhillon -- Pravina Mehta: a woman architect in post-independence India / Mary N. Woods -- Shifting boundaries and creating identities: women architects in India: 1960 onward / Madhavi Desai.
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 74
Art, Indic
Art, Indic -- 20th century
Architecture -- India -- History
Feminism -- India
Women in art
Women architects -- India
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