Los Angeles - Lecture by Sundaram Tagore

Sundaram Tagore examines the history of India's struggle for artistic independence by looking at the work of rebel Indian artists who abandoned colonial conventions in search of a nationalist approach.

Sundaram Tagore poses provocative questions in his lecture The Promise of Modernism—Indian Art from 1900 to the Present: 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. Sponsored by the South Asian Art Council.

The lecture will be held in the Brown Auditorium Tuesday, May 25, at 7 pm.

Admission is free; no reservations required

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323-857-6000
www.lacma.org/programs/Lectures