Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Blanchard, Fay
2. Spira, Anthony
3. Hannam, Emily
4. Nasar, Hammad
5. Milton Keynes Gallery, host institution.
6. Box (Plymouth, England), host institution.

Description

1. 216 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm

Summary

1. This book tells the dynamic story of contemporary art's engagement with the miniature painting traditions of South Asia from the sixteenth century onwards, and the role of Britain in these developments. This is the first publication to address this remarkable painting tradition on a trans-historical and transnational scale. Readers are invited to admire the formal, technical and conceptual innovations of some of the most exciting historic and contemporary artists from South Asia, while reflecting on questions of culture and power in the entangled histories of empire and globalization. Many of the greatest collections of South Asian paintings are held in Britain, and some of the pivotal encounters that shaped this story happened in London. The process of these acquisitions and their central role within British and South Asian art histories are explored in this book. The book also demonstrates how the traditions of South Asian miniature painting have been reclaimed and reinvented by modern and contemporary artists, exploding beyond the pages of illuminated manuscripts to experimental forms that include installation, sculpture and film. While miniature painting represented a strand of cultural resistance to colonial rule in the early twentieth century, artists continue to find contemporary relevance in the possibilities offered by this tradition. Beyond the Page is richly illustrated with historic works from the Victoria & Albert Museum, the British Library, the British Museum, the Ashmolean, the Bodleian Library and the Royal Collection Trust. It also features work by artists from different generations working in dialogue with the miniature tradition.

Alternative title

1. South Asian miniatures and Britain, 1600 to now

Subject

1. Miniature painting
2. Miniature painting, Indic
3. History
4. India
5. Art appreciation
6. Exhibition catalogs
7. Great Britain
8. Art, British > Foreign influences > Exhibitions
9. Art, South Asian > Exhibitions
10. Miniature painting > India > History > Exhibitions
11. Miniature painting, Indic > Appreciation > Great Britain > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.
2. History.

Contents

1. Introduction / Anthony Spira and Victoria Pomery -- Historic works -- Miniature paintings in British collections / Emily Hannam -- Contemporary works -- From rooted modernism to global contemporary / Hammad Nasar -- Catalogue 1970-2023 / Cleo Roberts-Komireddi with Elizabeth Brown -- Notes.

Call number

1. JQF 24-1297

Note

1. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 7 October 2023 to 28 January 2024; and The Box, Plymouth, 17 February to 2 June 2024.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Beyond the page : South Asian miniatures and Britain, 1600 to now / edited by Fay Blanchard & Anthony Spira.

Publisher

1. London, UK ; Dublin, Ireland : Philip Wilson Publishers : trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023.
2. Milton Keynes, England : MK Gallery, 2023.

Copyright date

1. ©2023

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Blanchard, Fay, editor.
2. Spira, Anthony, editor.
3. Hannam, Emily, writer of essay.
4. Nasar, Hammad, writer of essay.
5. Milton Keynes Gallery, host institution.
6. Box (Plymouth, England), host institution.

ISBN

1. 1781301255 (paperback)
2. 9781781301258 (paperback)

Research call number

1. JQF 24-1297