BLACK: THE COLOR OF KNOWING
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18 Aug
2021
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Southasian Painting
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Molly Emma Aitken
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Image: Fragment from a drawing of a yogi, Bikaner, after a Mughal model, early 17th century, lampblack on paper, 6 x 8 cm., private collection, previously in the collection of the Usta painters of Bikaner
In this session, we investigate the black line in all its semantic richness. We look at South Asian drawings, paintings that eschew colour, and how artists deployed outlines as well as the black of text. We conclude with paintings dominated by black for mood. The topic of black allows us to return to basics with a sophistication that locates us at the forefront of thinking in the field. We will attend to the sensual materiality of black, too, as we probe materials and techniques.
This Lecture is part of the Postgraduate Southasian Painting Course “ARTS OF THE BOOK IN SOUTH ASIA”
Registration Fee for the course: Rs. 15,000 | Students: Rs. 10,000*.
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Duration -
August 18, 2021
Timing: 6:15 - 8:30 PM
Registrations Closed
Molly Emma Aitken
Molly Emma Aitken is an Associate Professor in the Art History Department at The Graduate Center, CUNY and the Art Department at CUNY’s City College of New York. Her publications include When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection (London: Asia Society and Philip Wilson Publishers, 2004), and The Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), which won CAA’s Charles Rufus Morey award in 2011 and the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize in 2012. She has drafted most of a co-authored monograph on the classical Indian heroine or nayika in Mughal, Deccan and Rajput painting and poetry with a professor of early modern Hindi literature at Columbia University, Allison Busch (1969-2019). Aitken is currently working on two manuscripts. One, tentatively titled, We Are All Women is about gender, eros and play in Mughal painting; the second, with the working title In the Sisterhood of Images, is a memoir in art history. Aitken has been travelling to India for research since 1992 when she apprenticed for a year to renowned Mughal and Rajput painting master Bannu ji. She misses being a painter; the experience of making still colours all of her scholarships.