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Arts of South Asia: cultures of collecting

Arts of South Asia: cultures of collecting
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ISBN 168340047X (hardcover)
9781683400479 (hardcover)
Title Arts of South Asia : cultures of collecting / edited by Allysa B. Peyton & Katherine Anne Paul
Publisher Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, 2019
Physical desc. 288 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm.
Series David A. Cofrin Asian art manuscript series
Note CBL illustrations: front cover (In 02, f. 191a, detail); p. 94 (InE 1630, f. 65v, detail); p. 96, fig. 4.1 (ACB portrait, 1911); fig. 4.2 (photo of Baroda House, London, ca. 1915); p. 97, fig. 4.3 (In 05, f. 63a); p. 98, fig. 4.4 (invoice from W.O. Oldman, London, 1918); p. 102, fig. 4.5 (letter from Luzac & Co., London to ACB, 1920); p. 103, fig. 4.6 (In 02, f. 191a); p. 105, fig. 4.7 (In 04.57); p. 106, fig. 4.8 (telegram from Ajit Ghose to ACB, 1930); p. 107, fig. 4.9 (invoices from Maggs Bros., London, 1928); p. 108, fig. 4.10 (telegrams from ACB, 1937); p. 109 (In 21.82); p. 111, fig. 4.11 (ACB portrait, ca. 1934); p. 112 (ACB notes, New York, 1937) & InE 1630, f. 65v); p. 113, fig. 4.13 (Baroda House exhibition notice, 1939); p. 116, fig. 4.14 (In 37.28a); p. 119, fig. 4.15 (letter from William Archer to J.V.S. Wilkinson, 1952); p. 120, fig. 4.16 (ACB portrait, 1953).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Allysa B. Peyton and Katharine Anne Paul -- 'Relating to a country so distant': collecting South Asian arms and armor at the Tower of London during the nineteenth century / Natasha Bennett -- Objects across empire: the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto / Deepali Dewan -- Colonial collecting in Ceylon: dispersing the Hugh Nevill collections across the British Isles / Sushma Jansari -- 'We want quality and condition': the formation of Chester Beatty's South Asian manuscripts and miniatures collection / Hyder Abbas -- Collecting with éclat: Coomaraswamy and the framing of Indian art in American museums / Brinda Kumar -- Nasli Heeramaneck: the consummate collector and connoisseur / Pratapaditya Pal -- Masterworks of South Asian art at the Newark Museum: from missionaries, merchants, and medical women and men / Katherine Anne Paul -- Collecting and curating Indian art in Southeast Asia: the Asian Civilisations Museum and the Indian Heritage Centre, Singapore / Gauri Parimoo Krishnan -- Returning 'home': the journey and afterlife of repatriated objects / Melody Rod-Ari.
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 02
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 04
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 05
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 21
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 37
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- InE 1630
Arts, South Asian -- History
Art, Asian -- Collectors and collecting
Art, South Asian -- History
Art museums -- Collection management
Added name(s) Peyton, Allysa B.
Paul, Katherine Anne
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