Raja Ravi Varma and Colonial Eyeing
Keywords:
Raja Ravi Varma, paintings, history
Abstract
This paper on the colonial eyeing in the paintings of Raja Ravi Varma constitutes of three parts. Part 1 is on the advent of modernity and the scopic history of the West in the 19th century. Part 2 is on the colonist’s eyeing towards the Indian other —the look towards the colony as both exotic and the other and also the identification of the elite, upper class Indian towards this eyeing. Part 3 is on the eyeing present in the works of Raja Ravi Varma, the Kerala born painter who was one of the most popular painters during the time of the Raj
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2. Mc Luhan, Marshall - The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Indusrial Man,Boston, Beacon Press, 1967.
3. Wells, Liz (Ed.)- Photography – A Critical Introduction, London, Routledge,1997.
4. Alloula, Malek- The Colonial Harem, Manchester University Press, 1985.
5. Pultz, John- Photography and the Body, Everyman Art Library, 1995.
6. Berger, John- Ways of Seeing, U K, Penguin, 1972.
7. Stoker, Bram- Dracula, London, Penguin, 1994 ( 1st edition by Archibald Constable and Company, Westminister, 1897).
8. Kesavan, C- Jeevithasamaram, Kottayam, DC Books, 2007 (3rd edition).
9. Narayana Guru- Atmopadesasatakam (originally published in 1897).
10. Pinney, Christopher- Photos of Gods – The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India, Reaktion, 2004.
11. Lowe, Donald M- History of Bourgeois Perception, Harvester Press, 1982.
12. Carroll, Lewis - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking – Glass, London, Penguin, 1998 (originally published in 1865 and 1872 respectively)
13. Chanthu Menon, O. – Indulekha, Kottayam, D.C. Books, .2006. (originally published in 1889).
14. Cartwright, Lisa and Sturken, Marita – Practices of Looking, Oxford University Press, 2009.
15. Dahejia, Vidya – Representing the Body – Gender in Indian Art, Delhi, Kali for Women, 1997.
Published
2019-12-05
How to Cite
ആശാലത. (2019). Raja Ravi Varma and Colonial Eyeing. മലയാളപ്പച്ച, 3(3), 112 - 130. Retrieved from https://mrjc.in/index.php/malayalapachcha/article/view/198
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