Seeing-making-meaning: An Introduction to Art Historical Methods
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04 Nov
08 Nov
2019
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Criticism and Theory
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Chaitanya Sambrani
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Image: Tallur L.N., Tolerance 3, 2019. Sandalwood sand stone. 175cmX82cmX 36cm
This series of lectures offers an introduction to a range of theoretical approaches to the experience of art. Drawing on European and Asian examples in the history of art and aesthetic theory, the series will enable a discussion of ways in which visual art has been activated and made meaningful. Asking “what if?” and “so what?” the series will seek to relate historical developments to present conditions through questions of visuality, language, politics, gender and psychoanalysis.
Day 1: Introduction: visuality, representation, politics
Day 2: The social history of art: Marxism and critical theory
Day 3: The gendered history of art: feminism, otherness, alterity
Day 4: The gaze: psychoanalytical insights
Day 5: Contemporary art and post-colonial experience
Duration -
November 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 2019
Timing: 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Fees
Rs. 4,000 (For a 50% student discount, write to info@jp-india.org)
Registrations Closed
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.