Hong Kong - Foreign Correspondents' Club presents: The Promise of Modernism: Indian Art from 1900 to 2000 April 6, 2009
Monday, April 6th, 2009
Foreign Correspondents Club, 2 Lower Albert Road, Central, Hong Kong
Please reserve with the FCC reception at (Tel) 2521 1511, (Fax) 2868 4092
or email concierge@fcchk.org
Dinner will be served at 7:00pm followed by the lecture • $175 for FCC members and $250 for non-members
At a time when Indian artists are creating a sensation in the art world, this lecture looks back into the country's past. It tells the story of rebel artists who abandoned colonial conventions in search of a nationalist approach. At the heart of this narrative lie provocative questions: If modernism is the rejection of tradition, just how does a 5,000-year-old traditional culture manage to make modern art? Was modernism only a Western movement or was it a worldwide phenomenon? Why are Asian artists who take inspiration from the West labeled as derivative? Yet when Western artists borrow from Asian cultures they are celebrated as avant-garde. This is the history of India's struggle for artistic independence.
Few people know this topic as well as Sundaram Tagore. One of the leading figures in defining artistic globalization, Tagore is a New York-based gallerist and art historian. A candidate for a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford, Tagore writes for numerous art publications. He has worked with many arts organizations including The Peggy Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He has also advised the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the United Nations. Recently, he was profiled on CNN's Talk Asia.
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Foreign Correspondents Club, 2 Lower Albert Road, Central, Hong Kong
Please reserve with the FCC reception at (Tel) 2521 1511, (Fax) 2868 4092
or email concierge@fcchk.org
Dinner will be served at 7:00pm followed by the lecture • $175 for FCC members and $250 for non-members
At a time when Indian artists are creating a sensation in the art world, this lecture looks back into the country's past. It tells the story of rebel artists who abandoned colonial conventions in search of a nationalist approach. At the heart of this narrative lie provocative questions: If modernism is the rejection of tradition, just how does a 5,000-year-old traditional culture manage to make modern art? Was modernism only a Western movement or was it a worldwide phenomenon? Why are Asian artists who take inspiration from the West labeled as derivative? Yet when Western artists borrow from Asian cultures they are celebrated as avant-garde. This is the history of India's struggle for artistic independence.
Few people know this topic as well as Sundaram Tagore. One of the leading figures in defining artistic globalization, Tagore is a New York-based gallerist and art historian. A candidate for a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford, Tagore writes for numerous art publications. He has worked with many arts organizations including The Peggy Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He has also advised the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the United Nations. Recently, he was profiled on CNN's Talk Asia.
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