Tapati guha-thakurta biography of michael

  • Tapati Guha-Thakurta is Professor in History and currently the Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC).
  • Tapati Guha-Thakurta is the Director and Professor in History at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
  • Tapati Guha-Thakurta (born 27 September 1957) is an Indian historian who has written about the cultural history and art of India.

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    Monuments, Objects, Histories - (Cultures of History) by Tapati Guha-Thakurta (Hardcover)



    About the Book



    This book offers both an insider and outsider perspective, moving from a period that saw the consolidation of western expertise and custodianship of India's "antiquities," to the projection over the twentieth century of varying regional, nativist and national claims around the country's archaeological, architectural and artistic inheritance, into a present time that has pitted these objects and fields within a highly contentious politics of nationhood.



    Book Synopsis



    Art history as it is largely practiced in Asia as well as in the West fryst vatten a western invention. In India, works of art-sculptures, monuments, paintings-were first viewed under colonial rule as archaeological antiquities, later as architectural relics, and bygd the mid-20th century as works of art within an elaborate art-historical classification. Tied to these views were narratives in which the works f

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    Tapati Guha-thakurta

    Tapati Guha-Thakurta is Professor in History and currently the Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC).Her two main books are The Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal, Cambridge University Press, 1992, and Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Postcolonial India, Columbia University Press and Permanent Black, 2004. She is also the author of several articles on the art and cultural history of modern India, and exhibition monographs, such as In her own Right; Remembering the artist Karuna Shaha, Seagull, 2000; Visual Worlds of Modern Bengal, Seagull, 2002; The Aesthetics of the Popular Print, Birla Academy, Kolkata, 2006, and The City in the Archive: Calcutta’s Visual Histories, CSSSC, 2011. Along with Partha Chatterjee and Bodhisattva Kar, she has co-edited the anthology, New Cultural Histories of India: Materiality and Practices, Oxford University Press, 2

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    Tapati Guha-Thakurta

    Tapati Guha-Thakurta is the Director and Professor in History at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Her specialisation is within the disciplinary fields of cultural history, history of art and visual studies. She has engaged with the following themes through her writings and her courses: art, nationalism and modernity; the institutional practices and political locations of art history and archaeology; the careers of monuments and museum objects; and popular urban visual culture of modern and contemporary India. Her three main books are The Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Postcolonial India (Columbia University Press, and Permanent Black, 2004), and In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata (Delhi: Primus Books, 2015). She has also authored exhibition monograph