[Urbanstudy] Fw: Tomorrow- RE-LOOK 16 -Tapati Guha Thakurta on "The Dead Object of Public Statuary" Tuesday 16 August 2011, 6.30 pm @1.Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery

[Curt Gambetta]

This should be of interest, if in Bangalore. Apologies for any cross posting.


Curt


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Subject: Tomorrow- RE-LOOK 16 -Tapati Guha Thakurta on "The Dead Object of Public Statuary" Tuesday 16 August 2011,6.30 pm @1.Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery


For Re-Look 16, historian Tapati Guha Thakurta who has
written several seminal books on art, will present her most recent research
looking at the public statues of Kolkata.





Somberikatte
@ 1Shanthiroad 
 
presents 
 
RE-LOOK
: Lectures on Indian Art
 
 
“The
Dead Object of Public Statuary”
 
 
a lecture by 
 

Tapati
Guha Thakurta
Historian,
CSSS, Kolkata
 
 
Tuesday 16 August 2011 at 6:30 pm
@
1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, 
1,
Shanthi Road, Shanthi Nagar, Bangalore 560027
 
 
The Dead
Object of Public Statuary 
Despite their
largeness and privileged locations, public statuary are usually rendered the
most ignored objects of public spectatorship, consigned to a status of being
neither ‘art’ nor ‘icon, neither ‘high’ nor ‘popular’ visual culture. With a
focus on Kolkata’s’s colonial and post-colonial statues, the paper interrogates
the public lives and functions of these objects from three angles: firstly, looking
at the logic of the form and materiality in this genre, and the purposes they
serve in transforming human likeness into official symbol; secondly it explores
why statues continually fall short of being sculpture, and thirdly it tracks
the transition of the colonial to the post-colonial in the changing sculptural
iconography of the city.
 
Tapati
Guha Thakurta has written widely on the art
and cultural history of modern India, and is currently a Professor in History
at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC). Her two main
books are The Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and
Nationalism in Bengal(Cambridge University
Press, 1992) and Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in
Colonial and Postcolonial India (Columbia University Press, and Permanent
Black, 2004) besides several monographs. She has recently curated an archival exhibition of the
CSSSC, titled The City in the Archive: Calcutta’s Visual Histories, which was on view at the Seagull Arts
and Media Resource Centre, Calcutta, from July 8 - 26, 2011. She is presently
completing on a book on the visual cultures of Durga Puja in contemporary
Calcutta. 
 
 
*RE-LOOK
- Lectures on Indian Art
This
series of lectures will present exciting new research being done in the areas
of art history, art practice and visual anthropology in India, each for the
first time in Bengaluru. Distinguished art historians and academics will be
invited to give illustrated papers on their recent work and interests. There
will be a lecture every month, which will take place at the popular artist
space 1Shanthiroad, situated in the heart of the city. The lectures are
programmed by Pushpamala N, supported by Somberikatte and hosted and
administered by 1.Shanthiroad.
 
*Somberikatte:Somberikatteis a Kannada word
meaning idler’s platform- usually the platform around a large tree where people
gather to gossip and exchange news. It is a fictional institution, sometimes a
forum, sometimes a film production company or the name of a photo studio, used
by the artist Pushpamala N. 
 
*1.Shanthiroad: The Studio/Gallery at
1.Shanthiroad, Bangalore, is an independent artist run space for art
residencies, slide lectures, small conferences, exhibitions, performances,
screenings and informal gatherings. Centrally located with an award winning
design, it was founded by Suresh Jayaram and is administered by a
not-for-profit trust VAC – Visual Art Collective.
www.1shanthiroad.com
 
 
 
 


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