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9780295751092 Academic Inspection Copy

The Brush of Insight

Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court
  • ISBN-13: 9780295751092
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
  • By Yael Rice
  • Price: AUD $173.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 21/08/2023
  • Format: Hardback (254.00mm X 178.00mm) 277 pages Weight: 953g
  • Categories: History of art / art & design styles [AC]
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Over the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Mughal court painters evolved from illustrators of manuscripts and albums to active mediators of imperial visionary experience, cultivating their patrons' earthly and spiritual authority. Featuring over 80 color illustrations, The Brush of Insight traces this shift, demonstrating how royal artists created a new visual economy that featured highly naturalistic royal portraits and depictions of the emperors' dreams. These images, in turn, shaped the perception of the Mughal emperors' preeminence in all domains-temporal and spiritual-from the reign of Akbar to that of his son and successor, Jahangir. In analyzing a wide range of visual materials including manuscripts, albums, and coins, art historian Yael Rice documents how manuscript painters and paintings challenged the status of writing as the primary medium for the transmission of knowledge and experience. With compelling material and original arguments, The Brush of Insight probes how pictures and illustrated books became central to imperial modes of seeing and being in early modern Mughal South Asia.
Yael Rice is associate professor of the history of art and Asian languages and civilizations at Amherst College.
"In her remarkably researched book, Yael Rice charts a Mughal 'visual economy'-nothing short of an astounding early modern art enterprise-thriving between the 16th and early 17th centuries in India . . . An immersive experience." (Hyperallergic)
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