Sylvia Houghteling is assistant professor of history of art at Bryn Mawr College.
"Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art
Association"
"Winner of the R.L. Shep Memorial Book Award, Textile Society of
America"
"[The Art of Cloth in Mughal India] maps a history of a specific
art form while offering a multilayered methodological corrective to
the field of art history. . . . [This book] is a crucial,
multidisciplinary addition to the field that combines art and
architectural history with explorations into comparative
literature, botany, and the history of trade."---Murad Khan Mumtaz,
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"Drawing on a superb range of material . . . Houghteling weaves a
lively and comprehensive tale of the production, circulation and
sensory experience of textiles during the age of the Great Mughals
(155-1700). . . . A remarkable aesthetic sensitivity permeates her
erudite research in this superb account of the lives and meanings
of Mughal textiles."---Emily Hannam, World of Interiors
"Houghteling compels us to rethink the history and historiography
of textiles from the subcontinent through methodological forays
that engage recent debates on global/local binaries, ecology and
the environment, sensorial histories, artisanal practices, and
commodity cultures, among other themes. . . . What emerges from
this insightful study . . . is a dazzling social, cultural,
political, and aesthetic history of textiles. Lavishly illustrated
and exquisitely produced, The Art of Cloth in Mughal India will
undoubtedly become a major landmark in the field of early modern
art history."---Sugata Ray, West 86th
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