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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association"
"Winner of the R.L. Shep Memorial Book Award, Textile Society of America"
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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, caa.reviews"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
