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Art
Ravi Shah

Political and Social Landscapes of the East India Company

William Hodges’s The Marmalong Bridge and James Baillie Fraser’s A view of Government House provides a commentary on how compositional elements contributed to the political and social landscape of the East India Company’s (EIC) presence in India

Architecture
Ravi Shah

The Avant-Garde and Commercialism

Commercial companies saw the potential of new forms of visual communication to reach out to a growing consumer market. A focus on utility and the rise of modernist artistic practice allowed artists with their newly found corporate patronage, to visually communicate a society in the machine age.

Art
Ravi Shah

Artistic Practice in a Post Great Depression England

Although bridging the gap between art and industry was a natural consequence of dealing with the economic crisis, it resulted in the lowering of status and prestige of modern art. As modern art became more concerned with commercial patronage, aesthetic value became secondary concern