'The Bauhaus exhibition in Calcutta in 1922 was a unique experience on the international art scene—a meeting of artistic and intellectual affinities. On a search for renewal after World War I, Western modernism encountered its Indian counterpart, which had emancipated itself from colonial constraints. At the Bauhaus’s first international show, works by Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, and other Bauhaus artists were presented alongside those of modern Indian artists such as Nandalal Bose, Sunayani Devi, and Abanindranath and Gaganendranath Tagore. This publication gives an account how this unusual encounter came about and presents the exhibition as an exemplary case of art history that dealt with shared visions rather than transmissions from the West to the East.' - from the publisher's website
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2013
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9783775736572
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anthology
HISTORY OF AN EXHIBITION
Introductory Remarks
The Bauhaus in Calcutta: World Art Since 1922: On the Topicality of an Exhibition
- Regina BITTNER, Kathrin RHOMBERG
AESTHETICS OF EMANCIPATION
Modernity, Art, and National Identity in India: Background to the Bauhaus Exhibition in Calcutta, 1922
- Partha MITTER
In Search of a New Visual Culture
- Tapati GUHA-THAKURTA, Sanjukta SUNDERASON
Writing a Transcultural Modern: Calcutta, 1922
- Sria CHATTERJEE
SCHOOL OF DEPARTURE
Shantiniketan: A World University
- R. Siva KUMAR
The Bauhaus and India: A Look Back to the Future: "Building! Design! Gothic—India!"
- Boris FRIEDEWALD
Mazdaznan and Racial Theory
- Torsten BLUME
Johannes Itten and India
- Christoph WAGNER
ANTICOLONIAL LABORATORY
The Anticolonial Laboratory: Indian Nationalist Dispora in German-Speaking Europe
- Kris MANJAPRA
Spaces of Conversation: The Avant-Garde in Nineteen-Twenties Calcutta
- Swati CHATTOPADHYAY
Excerpts from the Correspondence between Rabindranath Tagore and William Rothenstein
ART HISTORY AFTER GLOBALIZATION
Art History after Globalisation: Formations of the Colonial Modern
- Kobena MERCER
The Exhibition as 'Re-Job': Reconstructing the Bauhaus in Bengal
- Saloni MATHUR
The Bauhaus in Calcutta: An Encounter of the Cosmopolitan Avant-Garde
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