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SUMMARY:The travails of a migrating concept - art in the crossfire between
  the 'religious' and the 'aesthetic' - Professor Monica Juneja (Heidelberg
 )
DTSTART:20191016T160000Z
DTEND:20191016T170000Z
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CONTACT:Barbara Roe
DESCRIPTION:My talk is positioned in the interstices of art history and a 
 history of concepts\n(Begriffsgeschichte) not framed by national boundarie
 s. It investigates the migrant journeys\nof the concept of art to regions 
 beyond the West. The focus here is on South Asia\, a context\nmarked by st
 rong iconophilic traditions and practices where the modernist concept of a
 rt\nenters into relationships with local and regional understandings of vi
 suality and the image.\nStudying processes of transculturation involves ex
 amining both linguistic translations as well\nas tensions between normativ
 e idioms and art practice. Such processes are not only syncretic\nbut prod
 uce fresh fissures within delicately balanced structures of disjunctive\nc
 ontemporaneity. Taking the example of the heated controversies surrounding
  the work of\nthe modernist artist M.F. Husain\, the talk will draw attent
 ion to art’s difficult location within\na domain that seeks to hold the 
 religious and aesthetic in a single frame\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambri
 dge CB3 9DT
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