THE ART OF EXCHANGE Circulation of Visual Culture in Colonial India
A symposium sponsored by the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University.
1161, Amsterdam Avenue, Columbia University, New York 10027 The Emerging Cosmopolitan Artscape in Early 19th Century Calcutta Susan Bean, Peabody Essex Museum. Circulation of Objects across the Empire: From India to Canada Deepali Dewan, Royal Ontario Museum TransNational Ha-Has: The Limits of the Abstract Arindam Dutta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Trafficking Inalienability: Art, sovereignty and the gift in South Asia, 1760-1820 Natasha Eaton, University College London Indigo, Photography and Colonial Authority: Context and Subtext in Fergusson’s
Library, Casa Italiana
Venue
Archaeology in India
Barry Flood, New York University Costume Dramas: Artistic Hierarchies at the Court of the Marathas Douglas Fordham, University of Virginia The Indian village in Victorian space Saloni Mathur, University of California at Los Angeles Weaving Heirlooms: Reviving historic carpet designs in colonial western India Abigail McGowan, University of Vermonts “Magical Realism” and the “Ruse of Recognition” in Colonial Thanjavur: Maratha Court Portraiture in the 19th Century. Indira Viswanathan Peterson, Mount Holyoke College