{"product_id":"the-place-of-many-moods-by-dipti-khera-9780691201849","title":"The Place of Many Moods","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA look at the painting traditions of northwestern India in the eighteenth century, and what they reveal about the political and artistic changes of the era. In the long eighteenth century, artists from Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India, specialized in depicting the vivid sensory ambience of its historic palaces, reservoirs, temples, bazaars, and durbars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Mughal imperial authority weakened by the late 1600s and the British colonial economy became paramount by the 1830s, new patrons and mobile professionals reshaped urban cultures and artistic genres across early modern India. \u003cem\u003eThe Place of Many Moods\u003c\/em\u003e explores how Udaipur's artworks, such as monumental court paintings, royal portraits, Jain letter scrolls, devotional manuscripts, cartographic artifacts, and architectural drawings, represent the period's major aesthetic, intellectual, and political shifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDipti Khera shows that these immersive objects powerfully convey the \u003cem\u003ebhava\u003c\/em\u003e—the feel, emotion, and mood—of specific places, revealing visions of pleasure, plenitude, and praise. These memorialized moods confront the ways colonial histories have recounted Oriental decadence, shaping how a culture and time are perceived. Illuminating the close relationship between painting and poetry, and the ties among art, architecture, literature, politics, ecology, trade, and religion, Khera examines how Udaipur's painters aesthetically enticed audiences of courtly connoisseurs, itinerant monks, and mercantile collectives to forge bonds of belonging to real locales in the present and to long for idealized futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheir pioneering pictures sought to stir such emotions as love, awe, abundance, and wonder, emphasizing the senses, spaces, and sociability essential to the efficacy of objects and expressions of territoriality. \u003cem\u003eThe Place of Many Moods\u003c\/em\u003e uncovers an influential creative legacy of evocative beauty that raises broader questions about how emotions and artifacts operate in constituting history and subjectivity, politics and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47600091431148,"sku":"9780691201849","price":157.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691201849-the-place-of-many-moods.jpg?v=1777985469","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-place-of-many-moods-by-dipti-khera-9780691201849","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}