VISUAL CULTURE
The visual culture of Delhi is a vibrant palimpsest that weaves together historical grandeur, traditional craftsmanship, and contemporary creativity. It is a living, evolving entity that reflects the city's unique imageability and its position as a cultural confluence. Whether through its photogenic monuments, colourful streets or markets, or prolific art galleries, Delhi continues to be a beacon of visual delight. Chaotic, psychedelic and impoverished at many places, it is still muse to a painters, photographers and other visual artists alike since times immemorial. Visual images serve as powerful tools in creating and disseminating prosthetic memories shaping collective memory and identity and influencing how people perceive and relate to the city. Through photographs, art, installations, street art, and media representations, individuals connect with and internalize aspects of Delhi's rich and complex identity. Discover how these mediated images help create a shared cultural heritage and collective consciousness, influencing how both residents and outsiders warm up to the city.
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From Merchants to Emperors: British Artists in India, 1757 – 1930 -
Pratapaditya Pal,
Vidya Dehejia
Elements of Art
S P Gupta, Shashi Prabha Asthana
Transcultural Voices: Narrating Hip-hop Culture in Complex Delhi
Jaspal Naveen Singh
FROM MINIATURES TO MONUMENTS
PICTURING SHAH ALAM’S DELHI:1771-1806
Yuthika Sharma
Between Mimesis and Alterity: Art, Gift, and Diplomacy in Colonial
India, 1770–1800
NATASHA EATON
The Delhi Palace in 1846:
a panoramic view by Mazhar ‘Ali Khan
J.P. Losty
Performing Artists of Delhi
Various
The Colonial Tourist: Seeking the Picturesque in
Pre-Mutiny Delhi
JYOTI P. SHARMA
Emplacing and Excavating the City: Art, Ecology, and Public Space in New Delhi
Christiane Brosius
Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi
William Dalrymple and Yuthika Sharma
Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850 – 1922: Occidental Orientations
Partha Mitter
Beato's Delhi
Jim Masselos
Narayani Gupta
Graphic Delhi: Narrating the Indian Emergency,
1975–1977 in Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s Delhi Calm
Preeti Singh
The rāg that Burned down Delhi: Music and Memory between 1857 and 1947
Richard David Williams
In transition: Collection building at the National Gallery of
Modern Art in New Delhi
Arnika Ahldag
Rethinking Qawwali:
Perspectives of Sufism, Music, and Devotion in North India
Christopher Paul Holland
Expression of Gender in Urban Spaces, Through Street Art in Delhi, India
Reena Merin Cherian
Indian Art
Partha Mitter
A History of Fine Arts in India and the West
Edith Tömöry
