MULTIPLE MODERNISMS: EUROPE, ASIA AND BEYOND

MULTIPLE MODERNISMS: EUROPE, ASIA AND BEYOND

  • 07 Jan
    28 Jan
    2023

    Aesthetics, Criticism and Theory (ACT)

    Chaitanya Sambrani

MULTIPLE MODERNISMS: EUROPE, ASIA AND BEYOND

Image: S. Sudjojono, Cap Go Meh, c. 1940, Oil on canvas, 73 x 51 cm. Coll: Galeri Nasional Indonesia (National Gallery of Indonesia), Jakarta.

 

This series of four seminars will explore histories of modernism in the visual arts over a century-long span starting in the late 1860s. It will present an introduction to modernist trajectories in Euro-American art (primarily France, Italy, Germany and USA) in juxtaposition to coeval and contrapuntal developments in three Asian contexts (India, Indonesia and Japan). In doing this, the seminars will interrogate the originary mythologies of modernism including the privileged position usually ascribed to white heterosexual masculinity. Having first introduced the mainstream narrative of the “heroic quarter” characterised by rapid experimentation and multiple “-isms” in European art, the seminars will consider differential developments in Asian art.  The three Asian contexts selected for study will be analysed as instances of deep entanglement with the narrative of Euro-American modernity alongside the concomitant invention of tradition. The impact of colonisation and imperialism on artistic modernity will be discussed together with anti-colonial and nationalist aspirations, and impulses towards pan-Asianist solidarities. Students will be introduced to the careers of significant artists and theorists even as histories of art are explicated in light of political histories.

  • Modernism and the (European) Metropolis 1850-1930
  • Conditions of Contact; Colonial Visions 1850-1930
  • Imag(in)ing Nationhood 1900-1960
  • Affiliations, Experimentation and Contestation 1945-1975

 

Classes mainly on Saturdays

Please read the Terms and Conditions carefully before registering.

Duration -

January 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023

Timing: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM IST

Fees

Rs. 4,000 (For student discounts registrations kindly email info@jp-india.org)

Registrations Closed

Chaitanya Sambrani

Chaitanya Sambrani

Chaitanya Sambrani is an art historian, curator and teacher. An alumnus of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda (MA) and the Australian National University (PhD), he has taught courses on modernist and contemporary Asian art at the ANU since 2002. His curatorial projects include Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India (travelling exhibition: Australia, USA, Mexico, India, 2004-07), Place.Time.Play: Contemporary Art from the West Heavens to the Middle Kingdom (the first contemporary art exchange and exhibition involving Indian and Chinese artists, 2010) and Savanhdary Vongpoothorn: All that Arises (25-year survey of the Lao-Australian artist’s work, 2019). He is currently working on a study of international affiliations and cosmopolitan aspirations in the modern art of India and Indonesia.