Much Maligned Monsters

In this fascinating study, Partha Mitter traces the history of European reactions to Indian art, from the earliest encounters of explorers with the exotic. East to the more sophisticated but still incomplete appreciations of the early twentieth century. Mitter's new Preface reflects upon the profound changes in Western interpretations of non-Western societies over the past fifteen years.

Partha Mitter teaches at the University of Sussex. He was a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. He has just completed a book on art and nationalism in colonial India.

List of Plates
Preface to the 1992 Edition
Preface
Abbreviations
Map
Indian Art in Travellers' Tales	p. 1
Much Maligned Monsters	p. 3
Wonders of Elephanta	p. 31
Paganism Revealed	p. 48
Eighteenth Century Antiquarians and Erotic Gods	p. 73
Orientalists, Picturesque Travellers, and Archaeologists	p. 105
Anquetil-Duperron, Niebuhr, Le Gentil, and Sonnerat	p. 106
The Sublime, the Picturesque, and Indian Architecture	p. 120
India and the Rise of Scientific Archaeology	p. 140
From Reynolds to Ram Raz	p. 171
Historical and Philosophical Interpretations of Indian Art	p. 189
The Debate on the Origin of the Arts	p. 190
Creuzer and Hegel	p. 202
The Victorian Interlude	p. 221
Owen Jones and the New School of Industrial Design	p. 221
John Ruskin and William Morris	p. 238
Towards the Twentieth Century: A Reassessment of Present Attitudes	p. 252
Notes	p. 287
Appendix 1: Outline of Early European Collections of Indian Art	p. 321
Appendix 2: On Elephanta and Salsette from Castro's Roteiro	p. 326
Bibliography	p. 330
Index	p. 345
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Much Maligned Monsters

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