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Archival Aesthetics: Framing and Exhibiting Indian Manuscripts and Manuscript Libraries
- Author(s):
- Anthony Cerulli (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Group(s):
- Archives, Indology, Social History of Archives, Textual Scholarship
- Subject(s):
- Photography, Photography in ethnology, Archives, India, South Asia, Area studies, Aesthetics
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Manuscripts, Photoethnography, South Asian studies, Manuscript cultures
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/h0np-dc75
- Abstract:
- Can the Indian manuscript and manuscript library be art? In what follows, I reflect on this question by examining a set of photographs I created for an art project called Manuscriptistan. I explain what it has meant for me to aestheticise Indian manuscript libraries and manuscripts, and I offer some insights about why it is important for scholars to bring sensual, spatial and artistic awareness to the things with which, and the spaces in which, they do their research.
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- Published as:
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- Pub. DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2020.1740436
- Publisher:
- Informa UK Limited
- Pub. Date:
- 2020-5-12
- Journal:
- South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
- Page Range:
- 1 - 23
- ISSN:
- 0085-6401,1479-0270
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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Archival Aesthetics: Framing and Exhibiting Indian Manuscripts and Manuscript Libraries