IN THE AGE OF NON-MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION: COPYING IN SOUTH ASIAN ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPTS
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13 Oct
2021
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Southasian Painting
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Neeraja Poddar
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Image: Krishna kills Shatadhanva
Folios from illustrated Bhagavata Purana manuscripts
Central India, late 17th century
Above: Kanoria Collection, Patna, India
Below: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1975.410.7, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wiener, 1975
The session will examine the impact of non-mechanical copying on the meaning of painted works. Early modern artists were often governed by their own unique canons while copying, giving rise to the paradoxical situation of artists innovating while reproducing. Focusing on narrative variations that arise as a result of such interpretive copying, the talk will probe how sectarian concerns, literary and cultural trends, and artistic strategies may have guided the copy artist’s choices.
This Lecture is part of the Postgraduate Southasian Painting Course “ARTS OF THE BOOK IN SOUTH ASIA”
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Duration -
October 13, 2021
Timing: 6:15 - 8:30 PM
Registrations Closed
Neeraja Poddar
Neeraja Poddar (PhD Columbia University) is an independent scholar and curator of South Asian art. She has previously held curatorial positions at Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) and The City Palace Museum, Udaipur (CPMU). Neeraja’s area of expertise is early modern illustrated manuscripts and series with research interests in the materiality of book objects, relationships between text and image, and the translation and circulation of narrative. She has published widely on illustrated manuscripts and series of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa and Nepali painting, and has co-guest edited an issue of Manuscript Studies. Her recent curatorial projects are Krishna Reddy: The Movement of Life (2025) and Mythical, Divine, Demonic: Animal Imagery in South Asian Art (2024-2026). Neeraja co-curated the comprehensive reinstallation of the South Asian galleries at the PMA. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, The Clark Art Institute, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the C. V. Starr Foundation, and Columbia University.