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The Politics and Aesthetics of Citation: Nath Painting at the Jodhpur Court, 1803–1843 examines the intersection of painting and politics at the court of Maharaja Man Singh of Jodhpur, a Rajput kingdom in northwest India. The dissertation focuses upon previously unpublished paintings relating to the political and economic ascendance of the Naths. The Naths are a heterodox religious order of Shaiva yogis and householders whose elite became Jodhpur's most important powerbrokers for forty years. Images examined include court portraiture and darbar paintings; devotional paintings that draw upon the genres of portraiture, pilgrimage maps and cartography; folios from the Suraj Prakash (an illustrated dynastic history) and the Siddha Siddhanta Paddhati (an illustrated yoga text); and the wall murals the Mahamandir temple in Jodhpur. The study demonstrates that artists responded to a dramatically reconceived sovereignty through pictorial strategies reliant upon the visual tradition of copying. Rejecting the notion that copying is a conservative gesture that perpetuates timeless values, the study examines artistic practice, court reception and historical context to redefine the mechanism of picture and meaning production in nineteenth-century Jodhpur as one of citation. Citation recognizes that repeated motifs were appreciated at court as an aesthetic that not only perpetuated, but also appropriated and subverted established values and hierarchies. When artists appropriated motifs from non-court genres or juxtaposed motifs from diverse genres, they actively participated in an historical reworking of an ideology of rule. While the dissertation draws upon semiotics, it gives equal consideration to indigenous aesthetic and poetic traditions that address the role of repetition in the construction of meaning. The study also considers how certain genres, such as devotional painting and cartography, invite viewing practices that structure reception.

One day last May, Shannon Dillingham, an athletic, outgoing high school junior, was competing fiercely in the long jump at a high school track meet. The next day she was battling to stay alive.

One day last May, Shannon Dillingham, an athletic, outgoing high school junior, was competing fiercely in the long jump at a high school track meet. The next day she was battling to stay alive.

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One day last May, Shannon Dillingham, an athletic, outgoing high school junior, was competing fiercely in the long jump at a high school track meet. The next day she was battling to stay alive.

One day last May, Shannon Dillingham, an athletic, outgoing high school junior, was competing fiercely in the long jump at a high school track meet. The next day she was battling to stay alive.