Baroda: A Cosmopolitan Provenance in Transition

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This anthology frames the story of Baroda’s visual culture from the early 18th century to present times along the themes of provenance and cosmopolitanism. Baroda’s sphere of art production from the princely through to the contemporary firmly establishes it as a recognizable provenance. Simultaneously, a wide inclusion of local, regional and foreign ideas lends the provenance a cosmopolitan character: early artists, craftsmen and photographers engage with Sayajirao Gaekwad III; the royal patron in turn represents them at international exhibitions; itinerant builders and European architects contribute to a fast-modernizing state; artists and teachers set new directions for a Faculty of Fine Arts in post-Independence Baroda; patrons, gallerists, scholars and artists shape contemporary Baroda’s artistic culture.

The writers approach Baroda from different vantage points: as first-person accounts, as art critics, anthropologists and historians. Together they contribute new approaches to art history, and provide a non-Western case study of provenance and cosmopolitanism.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Priya Maholay-Jaradi

Priya Maholay-Jaradi, Course convenor, Art Hist ory Minor National University of Singapore. Priya Maholay-Jaradi is course convenor for Art History Minor and lecturer at the Department of History, National University of Singapore. She has authored Parsi Portraits from the Studio of Raja Ravi Varma (2011) and Baroda: A Cosmopolitan Provenance in Transition (2015).

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Title
Baroda: A Cosmopolitan Provenance in Transition
Author
Edition
1st. ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9789383243082
Length
156p., 130 Illustrations
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