Output details

Mimesis across Empires: Artworks and Networks in India, 1765-1860

Research imperatives and process: Mimesis across Empires is the first critical and revisionist study of the visual culture and artistic economies of Britain and India in a decisive period of political change and revolution (1765 to 1860). It is based on research undertaken over a period of 15 years in archives in US, UK and South Asia funded by The Leverhulme Trust, the AHRC, The British Academy, The Nehru Trust, The Freer Gallery, Yale University, the Simon Trust. Drawing on hitherto neglected or unknown materials from public and private collections, Eaton revisits the historical archive in the light of contemporary art and a range of contemporary political, cultural and artistic thinkers. The project was also funded by the Getty, Paul Mellon Centre and the Historians of British Art.