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What can art tell us about London’s oldest and longest surviving multinational corporation?
This ground-breaking book identifies hundreds of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company, most of which can be found in London today. By bringing them together into a single study, Howes shows that these extraordinary objects are important historical vestiges of a company that survived for a quarter of a millennium.
The Art of a Corporation is a must read for anyone interested in the East India Company, Art History and Britain’s colonial past.
Chapter one is free open access.
Click here to watch Jennifer's book launch lecture at the Royal Asiatic Society.
REVIEWS:
“This is the first attempt to look at all the artworks produced by the East India Company, as a corporate entity. Through detective investigation, Howes brings the dispersed collection back together both as a narrative and as a collection, connecting also to current debates about empire, capitalism and memorials.”
Giles Tillotson
“The complexity of the East India Company is one of the reasons British Empire is so poorly understood. Howes does vital work shining light on one particular aspect of its history – a real education for me.”
Sathnam Sanghera
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