Art Histories Workshop
Do 22 Jun 2017 – Fr 23 Jun 2017

Landscapes of the Long 18th Century: Mediating Place and Memory in South Asia and Beyond

Organized by Hannah Baader and Dipti Khera (NYU/ Art Histories Fellow 2015/16)

Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin

Palastgarten vor Flusslandschaft; Albumblatt; Inventarnr. I 5005 fol. 10 -© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst.
Palastgarten vor Flusslandschaft; Albumblatt; Inventarnr. I 5005 fol. 10 -© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst.

Workshop Report by Nobuko Toyosawa on TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research

This workshop sought to explore how painters, poets, historians and intellectuals have imagined landscapes and urbanisms in and of early modern South Asia, particularly over the course of the long eighteenth century. The mediation of memory and place in pictorial and literary practices in this time period was shaped by aesthetic, and philosophical ideas and an epistemic situation that had deeper genealogies in the subcontinent and the broader Asian and Islamic world.

Nonetheless, images, moods and ideologies encapsulated in British landscape painting and colonial photography have constructed the dominant lens that has shaped historical inquiries into spatial imaginings in the South Asian context. The focus on the long eighteenth century enables us to establish conversations between the intersections, connections and comparisons that emerged in visual practices commissioned by diverse patrons from regional kings, Mughal emperors, trans-regional merchants, and British officers.

Participants
Lamia Balafrej (Wellesly College/ Art Histories Fellow 2016/17)
Tim Barringer (Yale University)
Chanchal Dadlani (Wake Forest University)
Raffael Gadebusch (Museum for Asian Art, Berlin, SMB)
Lihong Liu (Rochester University)
Monica Juneja (Universität Heidelberg)
Venugopal Maddipati (Ambedkar University Delhi/ Art Histories Fellows 2016/17)
Francesca Orsini (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
Sunil Sharma (Boston University)
Yuthika Sharma (Edinburgh College of Art)
Nobuko Toyosawa (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Ning Yao (CAHIM Fellow 2016/17)

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