Rebecca Brown, “India’s Modern Antiquity: An Unreadable Text, a New Ruin, and the Question of Modernity after 1947” – October 26
Yeager Recital Hall, 6 p.m.
The simultaneity of India’s past and present often appears in tourist brochures and coffee table books, and it permeates much of how India articulates itself to itself and to the world. Rebecca Brown examines two works: K.C.S. Paniker’s Words and Symbols painting (1964) and Satish Gujral’s Belgian Embassy building of 1980-83. Both artists imbue their works with something of antiquity but also provide creative answers that show India’s relation to its colonial past while transforming a definition of the modern.