Art Appreciation: British Landscape Artists' Views of India
Course details
Course code
Q00009392Course date
Number of classes
1 sessionsBranch
Winchester BranchTutor
Prasannajit De SilvaFee range
How you'll learn
Venue
St Lawrence Parish Rooms (Winchester)Colebrook Street
Winchester
SO23 9LH
Level of study
Availability
Course overview
Course description
Views of India were a very popular subject for numerous British travellers and colonists to record. Their work encompassed India’s rich architectural heritage and natural landscapes and also British coastal cities and hill stations.
Considering a wide selection of paintings, prints and photographs from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – a period during which British power and influence in the subcontinent expanded rapidly – we will explore a range of questions.
What were the issues facing the artists in portraying scenes from a different culture?
How was their work shaped by European aesthetic theories?
What was the impact back in Britain of the material they produced?
How did their work help to shape European ideas about the subcontinent, its history and its society?
And what was its role in the broader imperial project?
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