THE LOCAL, THE WORLDLY AND THE TRANSCENDENT: WHERE ARE WE IN INDIAN PAINTING?
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25 Aug
2021
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Southasian Painting
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Molly Emma Aitken
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Image: Bhairava Raga, from an illustrated Ragamala, 1591, Chunar, 26 x 15 cm, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, IS 40-1981.
This session is about style in South Asian painting. Students become familiar with the fundamental styles that comprise pre-colonial painting. We establish what we mean by each of these styles and consider how and why each style was valued, and then we follow painters and patrons through several canonic examples as they sought ever more sophisticated stylistic combinations. We think about style in relation to place as vernacular, sacred, and transregional or cosmopolitan, and we discuss tropes of purity versus hybridity.
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 25, 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.