Grafted Arts: Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760-1910
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09 Aug
10 Aug
2022
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Indian Aesthetics
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Holly Shaffer
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Image: British Soldier in an Indian Landscape, Britain and Maharashtra, late 18th or early 19th century. Ink and opaque watercolor on printed paper, approx. 18 x 24 cm. Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal, Pune
In the eighteenth century, Maratha military rulers and British East India Company officials vied for power in western India; this series conceptualizes the artistic combinations that resulted as ones of “graft”—a term that acknowledges the violent and creative processes of suturing arts, and losing and gaining goods, as well as the shifting dynamics among the artists, administrators, and soldiers who assembled such materials.
Session 1: Patrons and Artists
Session 2: Objects and Transformations
Duration -
August 9, 10, 2022
Timing: 6:15 - 8:30 PM IST
Fees
Rs. 2,000 (For student discounts registrations kindly email info@jp-india.org)
Registrations Closed
Holly Shaffer
Holly Shaffer is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University with a focus on British and South Asian arts and their intersections. Her book, Grafted Arts: Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760-1910, published by the Paul Mellon Centre with Yale University Press in Spring 2022, won the American Institute of Indian Studies Edward C. Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities. She edited the 2021 issue of Ars Orientalis on the Graphic Arts and has published essays in The Art Bulletin, Art History, Journal 18, Modern Philology and Third Text.