Tapati Guha–thakurta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3778158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tapati Guha–thakurta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tapati |
| FAMILY NAME | Guha–thakurta |
| SIGNATURE | THAKURTA T G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Twin Sisters with Cameras
The Blurring of Distinctions
This chapter explores a set of contentions and paradoxes that have arisen from the repeated blurring of distinctions between the ‘artistic’ and the ‘religious’ object across different institutional and public sites in contemporary India. In September 1996, a line drawing of the goddess Saraswati by M. F. Husain, one of the artist’s large repertoire of stylized female nudes done in the 1970s became the object of sudden moral outrage among local ac…
Field Notes on the Contemporaneity of Tradition
The Production and Reproduction of a Monument: The Many Lives of the Sanchi Stupa
This essay considers the many lives of the ancient Buddhist stupa complex at Sanchi, tracing its transformations from a disused ruin and a site of ravage and pilferage to one of the best-preserved standing stupa complexes of antiquity. It engages with nineteenth-century histories of Sanchi's passage from discovered and excavated relic to portable object and image, exploring some of the processes of its imaging, replication, display, and documenta…
Our Gods, Their Museums’: 1 The Contrary Careers of India's Art Objects
The paper looks at the way the Western art museum today functions as a complex site for the production of new orders of ‘religious’ value around Indian sculpted objects. One of its main points is to foreground the ambivalence and instability of identities – the unresolved tensions between sacred and aesthetic tropes – that surround the contemporary lives of India's art objects, both within and outside the precincts of museums. Over the late ninet…
Havell, Ernest Binfield
Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish
Raz, Ram
Calcutta
Marshall, Sir John
Fergusson, James
For the Greater Glory of Indian Art: The Life of an Endangered Art Treasure in Modern India
The essay narrates the biography of a single art object-acclaimed in recent history as a "masterpiece" of ancient Indian sculpture-to invoke the larger spectrum of practices and discourses that came to constitute the field of art history in modern India. It explores the shifting locations and aesthetic trajectories that marked the transformation of this artifact from a curious archaeological "antiquity" into a national "art-treasure" and icon of …
The museumised relic: Archaeology and the first museum of colonial India
The museumised relic: Archaeology and the first museum of colonial India
Our Gods, Their Museums’: 1 The Contrary Careers of India's Art Objects
The paper looks at the way the Western art museum today functions as a complex site for the production of new orders of ‘religious’ value around Indian sculpted objects. One of its main points is to foreground the ambivalence and instability of identities – the unresolved tensions between sacred and aesthetic tropes – that surround the contemporary lives of India's art objects, both within and outside the precincts of museums. Over the late ninet…
For the Greater Glory of Indian Art: The Life of an Endangered Art Treasure in Modern India
The essay narrates the biography of a single art object-acclaimed in recent history as a "masterpiece" of ancient Indian sculpture-to invoke the larger spectrum of practices and discourses that came to constitute the field of art history in modern India. It explores the shifting locations and aesthetic trajectories that marked the transformation of this artifact from a curious archaeological "antiquity" into a national "art-treasure" and icon of …
The museumised relic: Archaeology and the first museum of colonial India
For the Greater Glory of Indian Art: The Life of an Endangered Art Treasure in Modern India
The essay narrates the biography of a single art object-acclaimed in recent history as a "masterpiece" of ancient Indian sculpture-to invoke the larger spectrum of practices and discourses that came to constitute the field of art history in modern India. It explores the shifting locations and aesthetic trajectories that marked the transformation of this artifact from a curious archaeological "antiquity" into a national "art-treasure" and icon of …
Havell, Ernest Binfield
Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish
Raz, Ram
Calcutta
Marshall, Sir John
Fergusson, James
Our Gods, Their Museums’: 1 The Contrary Careers of India's Art Objects
The paper looks at the way the Western art museum today functions as a complex site for the production of new orders of ‘religious’ value around Indian sculpted objects. One of its main points is to foreground the ambivalence and instability of identities – the unresolved tensions between sacred and aesthetic tropes – that surround the contemporary lives of India's art objects, both within and outside the precincts of museums. Over the late ninet…
The Production and Reproduction of a Monument: The Many Lives of the Sanchi Stupa
This essay considers the many lives of the ancient Buddhist stupa complex at Sanchi, tracing its transformations from a disused ruin and a site of ravage and pilferage to one of the best-preserved standing stupa complexes of antiquity. It engages with nineteenth-century histories of Sanchi's passage from discovered and excavated relic to portable object and image, exploring some of the processes of its imaging, replication, display, and documenta…
Field Notes on the Contemporaneity of Tradition
The Blurring of Distinctions
This chapter explores a set of contentions and paradoxes that have arisen from the repeated blurring of distinctions between the ‘artistic’ and the ‘religious’ object across different institutional and public sites in contemporary India. In September 1996, a line drawing of the goddess Saraswati by M. F. Husain, one of the artist’s large repertoire of stylized female nudes done in the 1970s became the object of sudden moral outrage among local ac…
Twin Sisters with Cameras
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