Indicative Weekly Reading
1. Decentering Modernism in South Asia
2. Karkhana and Collaboration
3. Unmaking the “Miniature”
4. Power and the Picturesque: British Artists in India
5. A(uto)nonymity: Company School Painting and Artistic Agency
6. Kalighat Painting and the Art of the Bazaar
7. Photography and the Colonial Gaze
8. Art/School/Infrastructure
9. Raja Ravi Varma, A National Artist?
10. “Swadeshi” and Aesthetic Discourse in South Asia
11. The Bengal School
12. The Bengal School and its Critics
13. Santiniketan, Sculpture, and the Subaltern
14. Feminism, Subalternity, and Retakes
15. Gendered Iconographies of the Nation
16. Midnight’s Children: The Progressives
17. The Crisis of Partition
18. 1947/Now
19. Architecture, Nation-Building, and the Nehruvian Ideal
20. Bhuphen Khakhar: You Can’t Please All at Tate Modern
Suggested Reading
Monica Juneja, “Global Art History and the ‘Burden of Representation,’” Global Studies: Mapping Contemporary Art and Culture (2011): 274-297.
Partha Mitter, “Decentering Modernism: Art History and Avant-Garden Art from the Periphery,” The Art Bulletin, Vol. 90, No. 4 (Dec. 2008): 531-574.
Tapati Guha-Thakurta, “The Period of Colonialism and Nationalism, c. 1757-1947,” in Art of India: Prehistory to the Present, Rick Asher, ed. (2003), pp. 109-128.