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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Machine generated contents note: I.Colonial and Postcolonial Binaries: The Orientalist Tropes of Knowledge -- II.Organization of the Book -- ch. One Crafting Artists as Primitive Artisans: Ethnology, Exhibitions and Museums in Colonial Punjab -- I.Ibbetson's Ethnography of Occupational Castes and Hereditary Artists as Primitive Artisan -- II.Primitive Art in Civilized Places: The Traditional Arts of Punjab -- III."Exhibitionary Complex" and the British Discovery of Indian Arts -- IV.Empire and Exhibition: Outlines of Primitive Aesthetics in Punjab -- V.Lahore Museum and the Limits of Museum's Public Pedagogy -- ch. Two Visual Literacy Orientalism in Punjab: The Mayo School of Art in the Late Nineteenth Century -- I.British Orientalist Appraisal of Indian Art Education: Signposts of the Future -- II.Art and Intrigue: The Formation of the Mayo School of Art -- III.Debating the Curriculum for the Mayo School of Art: A Dissident Note from Calcutta -- IV.Disciplining the Hereditary Body of Art: Kipling's Atelier -- V.Suitable Boy from Punjab: Ram Singh's Architectural Innovations -- ch. Three From Hereditary Craftsmanship to Modern Art and Design for Industry: The Mayo School of Art in the Early Twentieth Century -- I.Department of Industries in Punjab: A New Beginning for Industrial Art Education -- II.Curriculum, Pedagogy and Status of the Mayo School of Art -- III.Hereditary Artisans as Artists: The Creation of Modern Art Infrastructure in Punjab -- IV.Annual Industrial Art Exhibitions -- V.Reforming Craftsmanship to Developing Industry: The Design of Design Department -- VI.Commercial Arts and Graphic Design at the Mayo School of Art: The Lithography Department -- ch. Four Framing of a National Tradition: Aesthetic Modernism and Traditional Art at the NCA -- I.Technical Education in Pakistan: A Panacea for Modernization -- II.From the Mayo School of Art to the NCA: The Forward-Looking Years -- III.State Sponsorship of Traditional and Modern Art: the Birth of National Art -- IV.Shakir Ali: Revisiting the Myth of the Modern Master -- V.Phantom of Bauhaus at the NCA -- VI.Eclipsed by Tradition: The Last Hereditary Painter -- VII.Original as Copy: Creative Process in Indian Painting |
| Summary |
Lahore's Mayo School of Arts, as the National College of Arts (NCA) was called then, was Pakistan's equivalent of London's South Kensington School of Design (presently Royal College of Art, UK). One of the last of the four colonial art schools established in India, the others being in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, the Mayo School of Arts was founded in 1875 to perpetuate the memory of the Lord Earl of Mayo, the only Indian Viceroy to be murdered while in office. Established by Rudyard Kipling's father Lockwood Kipling, the school had on its staff some of the most renowned names in the Indian art world, such as Ram Singh, Percy Brown, Lionel Heath, S. N. Gupta, B. C. Sanyal and A. R. Chughtai. The Mayo School gave birth to the most celebrated Indian art historical publication in the world, the Journal of Indian Art and Industry. The pioneers of colonial anthropology in Punjab, the fabled 'men on the spot', such as Richard Temple, Denzil Ibbetson and Baden Powell, were associated with the establishment and administration of the Mayo School of Arts. Through its pedagogy, the Mayo School also framed the emergence of the Indo-Saracenic school of architecture and patronized the traditional styles of paintings in Punjab. In the founding decades of Pakistan, to mark the cultural transition from a colonized to an independent national identity, the 'old' Mayo School was reorganized and raised as the National College of Arts in 1958. To reflect its role in developing national culture and imparting professional visual art education, the NCA was established on the model of Bauhaus with three main departments in fine art, design and architecture |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 24, 2022) |
| Subject |
National College of Arts (Pakistan) -- History
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Arts -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Pakistan -- History
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Arts -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Pakistan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781785277931 |
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1785277936 |
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1785277944 |
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9781785277948 |
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