Indian Renaissance

British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India

• Author(s): Hermione De Almeida, George H. Gilpin,
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• Pages: 336
• ISBN_10: 075463681X
  ISBN_13: 9780754636816
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / European ,

Description:... 'Indian Renaissance' offers a comprehensive examination of British artists whose first-hand impressions of India became a stimulus for the Romantic movement in England, as well as a survey of the transformation of the images brought home by these artists into the cultural imperatives of imperial Victorian Britain.