{"product_id":"grafted-arts-holly-shaffer-9781913107284","title":"Grafted Arts: Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760-1910","description":"\u003cb\u003eConceptualizes \"graft\"-- the violent and creative processes of suturing arts as a method of empire building in western eighteenth-century India\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrafted Arts \u003c\/i\u003efocuses on Maratha military rulers and British East India Company officials who used the arts to engage in diplomacy, wage war, compete for prestige, and generate devotion as they allied with (or fought against) each other to control western India in the eighteenth century. This book conceptualizes the artistic combinations that resulted as ones of \"graft\"--a term that acknowledges the violent and creative processes of suturing arts, and losing and gaining goods, as well as the shifting dynamics among agents who assembled such materials. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By tracing grafted arts from multiple perspectives--Maratha and British, artist and patron, soldier and collector--this book charts the methods of empire-building that recast artistic production and collection in western India and from there across India and in Britain. This mercenary method of artistry propagated mixed, fractured, and plundered arts. Indeed, these \"grafted arts\"--disseminated across India and Britain over the nineteenth century to aid in consolidating empire or revolting against it entirely--remain instigators of nationalist agitation today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDistributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Holly Shaffer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1913107280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781913107284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Mellon Centre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.78h x 8.80w x 1.02d","brand":"Holly Shaffer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44057697517823,"sku":"9781913107284","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_03c37f0b-4cf5-4eff-8be5-683191d44cc3.jpg?v=1685048426","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/grafted-arts-holly-shaffer-9781913107284","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}