Capturing the colonial gaze | DAG’s ‘The Indian Picturesque’
A common starter task for schoolchildren in India is to draw a ‘scenery’. The morning sun peeking from behind a mountain-top, a stream gushing down, a few man-made structures. The tradition this borrows from is the English ‘picturesque’, the foundational influence of which is visible in English landscape paintings of the 18th and 19th centuries….