Of home and the self: the redesigning of the domestic space and women art thinkers of early 20th.c Bengal'.

This lecture brings forth the idea of gendered indigenous modernism of early 20thc.Bengal which emerged as an anticolonial discourse focusing on the early 20thc.women artists and designers. The idea is not to write them back in history but to understand the construal of women through the art practices. It centres around the narratives that went into the making of these art thinkers: the opening up of the private spaces to the public sphere. It looks at the unfolding of the redesigning of the domestic space as a political trope: the attire, the food and the everyday rituals observed by the women.

Image credit: Self portrait by Sunayani Devi in the collection of Gallery Akar Prakar, India.

Thursday, 26 March, 1-2pm
Michaelis Lecture Theatre, Hiddingh Campus
Open to the public, no RSVP required
Please note that the lecture venue is accessible by a staircase only.