The Primitive Imagined: Art and Ethnography in Colonial Bengal
PAST EVENT | 14 May 2015 11:00 - 14 May 2015 12:00
Aniket De (Pembroke Visiting Student) will discuss the depiction of the primitive and the rural in the paintings of the Bengal School.
The lecture will study the complex relationship of such primitivist art to concepts like colonial modernity and nationalism, as well as explore the non-Western aspects of global primitivism.
The presentation will also feature folktales, songs and poems from Bengal alongside the visual materials.
A short Q-and-A round will follow.
Note: Audience for this lecture is limited to 15, and advance registration is required: click here.
Find out more about Aniket at: http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/aniket-de
The Primitive Imagined: Art and Ethnography in Colonial Bengal
PAST EVENT | 14 May 2015 11:00 - 14 May 2015 12:00
Aniket De (Pembroke Visiting Student) will discuss the depiction of the primitive and the rural in the paintings of the Bengal School.
The lecture will study the complex relationship of such primitivist art to concepts like colonial modernity and nationalism, as well as explore the non-Western aspects of global primitivism.
The presentation will also feature folktales, songs and poems from Bengal alongside the visual materials.
A short Q-and-A round will follow.
Note: Audience for this lecture is limited to 15, and advance registration is required: click here.
Find out more about Aniket at: http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/aniket-de