Title & Author:

Woman's eye, woman's hand : making art and architecture in modern India : a collection of essays / edited by D. Fairchild Ruggles.

Publication:

New Delhi : Zubaan, an imprint of Kali for Women, 2014.

Description:

vi, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Some illustrations on endpapers.
Contributed articles.
Includes bibliographical references.
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 / Catherine 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.

Summary:

Post-independence, a generation of Indian women entered career fields such as architecture and design that had previously been closed to them. These educated professionals emerged as a pronounced political force-becoming important patrons of art, architecture, and public space-and increasingly became seen as the arbiters of taste and key shapers of the built environment. The essays in this volume address these developments and ask if these women produce art and architecture that specifically reflect a feminine perspective. They also explore how these women, otherwise invisible and largely excluded from public spaces, gained a voice in these male-dominated fields. A pathbreaking reassessment of the contribution of women artists and architects to the modern Indian landscape, This book looks at these questions through both the frame of gender as well as through the frame of family lineage, with particular attention to the continuing importance of women's patronage of the arts.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9789381017142
938101714X

Subject:

Art, Indic.
Art, Indic 20th century.
Architecture India History.
Feminism India.
Women in art.
Women architects India.
Art de l'Inde.
Art de l'Inde 20e siècle.
Architecture Inde Histoire.
Féminisme Inde.
Femmes dans l'art.
Femmes architectes Inde.
Architecture
Feminism
Women architects
Women's movement.
India

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Ruggles, D. Fairchild, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288004
Call No.: BIB 229520
Status: Available