Vivan Sundaram exhibition catalogue co-edited by Saloni Mathur and Miwon Kwon, with Preface by Mi... more Vivan Sundaram exhibition catalogue co-edited by Saloni Mathur and Miwon Kwon, with Preface by Miwon Kwon and essays by Andreas Huyssen, Rakhee Balaram, and Saloni Mathur.
This is the flyer for an volume co-edited with Saloni Mathur, in which we look at museum cultures... more This is the flyer for an volume co-edited with Saloni Mathur, in which we look at museum cultures in South Asia. The three sections bring together essays - reprinting classics and presenting new material - on colonial museums, museums and the 'national' moment, and museums in relation to post-colonial and even post-national formations. A very special Museum Watching section at the end of the book excerpts the lively and sometimes surprising observations of a team of young student-researchers who had visited and observed a large range of museums in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as part of a project run by Saloni Mathur and myself.
PART I: INAUGURAL FORMATIONS
1 The Transformation of Objects into Artefacts, Antiquities and Art in19th-century India • Bernard Cohn
2 The Museum in the Colony: Collecting, Conserving, Classifying • Tapati Guha-Thakurta
3 Staging Science • Gyan Prakash
PART II: NATIONAL RE-ORIENTATIONS
4 The Museum is National • Kavita Singh
5 Grace McCann Morley and the National Museum of India • Kristy Phillips
6 Museumising Modern Art: National Gallery of Modern Art, the Indian Case-Study • Vidya Shivadas
PART III: CONTEMPORARY ENGAGEMENTS
7 Museums are Good to Think: Heritage on View in India • Arjun Appadurai & Carol A. Breckenridge
8 Remembering the Rural in Suburban Chennai: The Artisanal Pasts of DakshinaChitra • Mary Hancock
9 Reincarnations of the Museum: The Museum in an Age of Religious Revivalism • Saloni Mathur & Kavita Singh
Museum Watching: An Introduction
Tulay Atak, Rituparna Basu, Shaila Bhatti,
Hope Childers, Monaz Gandevia, Neelima Jeychandran, Brinda Kumar,
Ramesh Kumar, Sraman Mukherjee, Suryanandini Narain,
Ameet Parameswaran, Siddarth Puri, Akshaya Tankha
An exchange from the Spring 2018 Art Journal containing a new text by the art critic, Geeta Kapur... more An exchange from the Spring 2018 Art Journal containing a new text by the art critic, Geeta Kapur, with responses by Saloni Mathur and Rachel Weiss. Available in print and on-line at this link: https://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=9918
Saloni Mathur (ed.), The Migrant’s Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora. Williamstown and New Haven: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute/Yale University Press, 2011.
Reincarnations of the Museum: The Museum in an Age of Religious Revivalism, co-authored with Kavita Singh, in Vishaka Desai (ed.), Asian Art History in the 21st Century. Williamstown and New Haven: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute/Yale University Press. 2007. Pp. 149-168.
Vivan Sundaram exhibition catalogue co-edited by Saloni Mathur and Miwon Kwon, with Preface by Mi... more Vivan Sundaram exhibition catalogue co-edited by Saloni Mathur and Miwon Kwon, with Preface by Miwon Kwon and essays by Andreas Huyssen, Rakhee Balaram, and Saloni Mathur.
This is the flyer for an volume co-edited with Saloni Mathur, in which we look at museum cultures... more This is the flyer for an volume co-edited with Saloni Mathur, in which we look at museum cultures in South Asia. The three sections bring together essays - reprinting classics and presenting new material - on colonial museums, museums and the 'national' moment, and museums in relation to post-colonial and even post-national formations. A very special Museum Watching section at the end of the book excerpts the lively and sometimes surprising observations of a team of young student-researchers who had visited and observed a large range of museums in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as part of a project run by Saloni Mathur and myself.
PART I: INAUGURAL FORMATIONS
1 The Transformation of Objects into Artefacts, Antiquities and Art in19th-century India • Bernard Cohn
2 The Museum in the Colony: Collecting, Conserving, Classifying • Tapati Guha-Thakurta
3 Staging Science • Gyan Prakash
PART II: NATIONAL RE-ORIENTATIONS
4 The Museum is National • Kavita Singh
5 Grace McCann Morley and the National Museum of India • Kristy Phillips
6 Museumising Modern Art: National Gallery of Modern Art, the Indian Case-Study • Vidya Shivadas
PART III: CONTEMPORARY ENGAGEMENTS
7 Museums are Good to Think: Heritage on View in India • Arjun Appadurai & Carol A. Breckenridge
8 Remembering the Rural in Suburban Chennai: The Artisanal Pasts of DakshinaChitra • Mary Hancock
9 Reincarnations of the Museum: The Museum in an Age of Religious Revivalism • Saloni Mathur & Kavita Singh
Museum Watching: An Introduction
Tulay Atak, Rituparna Basu, Shaila Bhatti,
Hope Childers, Monaz Gandevia, Neelima Jeychandran, Brinda Kumar,
Ramesh Kumar, Sraman Mukherjee, Suryanandini Narain,
Ameet Parameswaran, Siddarth Puri, Akshaya Tankha
An exchange from the Spring 2018 Art Journal containing a new text by the art critic, Geeta Kapur... more An exchange from the Spring 2018 Art Journal containing a new text by the art critic, Geeta Kapur, with responses by Saloni Mathur and Rachel Weiss. Available in print and on-line at this link: https://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=9918
Saloni Mathur (ed.), The Migrant’s Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora. Williamstown and New Haven: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute/Yale University Press, 2011.
Reincarnations of the Museum: The Museum in an Age of Religious Revivalism, co-authored with Kavita Singh, in Vishaka Desai (ed.), Asian Art History in the 21st Century. Williamstown and New Haven: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute/Yale University Press. 2007. Pp. 149-168.
Picturing Pakistan: Review of Iftikhar Dadi, Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia and Virginia Whiles, Art and Polemic in Pakistan. Art in America. March 2011. Pp. 54-60.
British Art Studies, no. 13: 'London, Asia, Exhibitions, Histories', 2019
One of several invited responses to an idea/provocation/question articulated by Saloni Mathur: wh... more One of several invited responses to an idea/provocation/question articulated by Saloni Mathur: why exhibition histories? The conversation piece in its entirety can be consulted online, https://doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-13/conversation
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Table of Contents
Preface • Monica Juneja
Introduction • Saloni Mathur & Kavita Singh
PART I: INAUGURAL FORMATIONS
1 The Transformation of Objects into Artefacts, Antiquities and Art in19th-century India • Bernard Cohn
2 The Museum in the Colony: Collecting, Conserving, Classifying • Tapati Guha-Thakurta
3 Staging Science • Gyan Prakash
PART II: NATIONAL RE-ORIENTATIONS
4 The Museum is National • Kavita Singh
5 Grace McCann Morley and the National Museum of India • Kristy Phillips
6 Museumising Modern Art: National Gallery of Modern Art, the Indian Case-Study • Vidya Shivadas
PART III: CONTEMPORARY ENGAGEMENTS
7 Museums are Good to Think: Heritage on View in India • Arjun Appadurai & Carol A. Breckenridge
8 Remembering the Rural in Suburban Chennai: The Artisanal Pasts of DakshinaChitra • Mary Hancock
9 Reincarnations of the Museum: The Museum in an Age of Religious Revivalism • Saloni Mathur & Kavita Singh
Museum Watching: An Introduction
Tulay Atak, Rituparna Basu, Shaila Bhatti,
Hope Childers, Monaz Gandevia, Neelima Jeychandran, Brinda Kumar,
Ramesh Kumar, Sraman Mukherjee, Suryanandini Narain,
Ameet Parameswaran, Siddarth Puri, Akshaya Tankha
Table of Contents
Preface • Monica Juneja
Introduction • Saloni Mathur & Kavita Singh
PART I: INAUGURAL FORMATIONS
1 The Transformation of Objects into Artefacts, Antiquities and Art in19th-century India • Bernard Cohn
2 The Museum in the Colony: Collecting, Conserving, Classifying • Tapati Guha-Thakurta
3 Staging Science • Gyan Prakash
PART II: NATIONAL RE-ORIENTATIONS
4 The Museum is National • Kavita Singh
5 Grace McCann Morley and the National Museum of India • Kristy Phillips
6 Museumising Modern Art: National Gallery of Modern Art, the Indian Case-Study • Vidya Shivadas
PART III: CONTEMPORARY ENGAGEMENTS
7 Museums are Good to Think: Heritage on View in India • Arjun Appadurai & Carol A. Breckenridge
8 Remembering the Rural in Suburban Chennai: The Artisanal Pasts of DakshinaChitra • Mary Hancock
9 Reincarnations of the Museum: The Museum in an Age of Religious Revivalism • Saloni Mathur & Kavita Singh
Museum Watching: An Introduction
Tulay Atak, Rituparna Basu, Shaila Bhatti,
Hope Childers, Monaz Gandevia, Neelima Jeychandran, Brinda Kumar,
Ramesh Kumar, Sraman Mukherjee, Suryanandini Narain,
Ameet Parameswaran, Siddarth Puri, Akshaya Tankha