Tapati guha-thakurta biography definition
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Monuments on the Move: Colonial and Postcolonial Journeys across Britain and India
Tuesday
05
March
PM - PM
Location
Room , School of Arts and Sciences
Seminar and Lecture Series
Tapati Guha Thakurta
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences
SpeakerMonuments, we know, are defined by their permanence and immutability, by their fixity in time and place. Their aura is intrinsically tied to their location in the original setting in which they were built. But it could also be argued that their propensity to circulate as life-size casts, replicas and remakes during the 19th century becomes crucial to the display value of monuments and their exhibitionary afterlives. The two imperial institutions of the world exhibitions and world museums were at the centre of these wide-ranging travels and circulations. With the travelling monument as its key motif, the paper attempts to critically juxtapose the reversed orders and directions across time of the outflows of large architectural ensembles between the empire and the colony. Positioning itself in contemporary Kolkata, it sets off the massive demand in late 19th century Britain for copies of historical monuments and architectural fabrications of the Indian colony with the radically
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Guha-Thakurta, Tapati
PERSONAL:
Education:Oxford University, Ph.D.
ADDRESSES:
Office—Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta R-1, Baishnabghata Patuli Township, Kolkata , India. E-mail—[emailprotected].
CAREER:
Educator and writer. Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India, professor of history.
WRITINGS:
The Making of a New "Indian" Art: Artists, Aesthetics, and Nationalism in Bengal, c. ,Cambridge University Press (New York, NY),
Traversing Past and Present in the Victoria Memorial, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (Calcutta, India),
Archaeology as Evidence: Looking Back from the Ayodhya Debate, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (Calcutta, India),
Culture and the Disciplines: Papers from the Cultural Studies Workshops, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (Calcutta, India),
Culture and Democracy: Papers from the Cultural Studies Workshops, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (Calcutta, India),
In Her Own Right: Remembering the Artist Karuna Shaha, Seagull Books (Calcutta, India),
Visual Worlds of Modern Bengal: Selections from the Documentation Archive of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Seagull Books (Calcutta, India),
Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and
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