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Indian Architecture in Postcards

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Focusing on a private collection of 60 postcards this book explores the many dimensions of modern architecture in India from the 1890s to the 1970s.
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Focusing on a private collection of 60 postcards of modern architecture in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Agra, the contributors to this volume explore the many dimensions of modern architecture in India from the 1890s to the 1970s and share their own perspective on these objects. Experts on architectural history and visual studies, as well as postcard collectors provide new insights into a territory and its architectural heritage which is still largely unknown in Europe, and reflect on the postcard as a medium for historical research.
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Price: $45.00
Pages: 196
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 26 September 2023
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837667165
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
Éléonore Muhidine (Phd) is an historian and art historian, focusing on the history of architecture and cities in the 20th century.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 7
Architectural modernity in India Sources and perspectives for research. An introduction 11
Building Postcards: Rössler's Calcutta 1896 37
Greetings from Bombay! Pictures of Colonial Complexity 67
Delhi - Beyond its 'appearance' 89
Transport and Communication as Symbols of Modernity in India: A Cultural Perspective 107
Before take-off: waiting for India's globalization at the Sahar International Airport in 1974 129
The Taj Mahal Hotel, Imperial, Sun'n'Sand, Oberoi, and others: the Indian chapter of the 20th-century grand hotel 137
Image, recto, verso, context. Approaching Deltiology as a method 149
Framing Fragments The Image, Modernity, and Architecture 177
List of figures 187
Authors 191