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The Bauhaus in Calcutta : an encounter of cosmopolitan avant-gardes / edited by Regina Bittner and Kathrin Rhomberg ; texts by Torsten Blume [and others] ; conversations with Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Sanjukta Sunderason and with R. Siva Kumar ; [translation, Rebecca Philipps Williams].
Title & Author:

The Bauhaus in Calcutta : an encounter of cosmopolitan avant-gardes / edited by Regina Bittner and Kathrin Rhomberg ; texts by Torsten Blume [and others] ; conversations with Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Sanjukta Sunderason and with R. Siva Kumar ; [translation, Rebecca Philipps Williams].

Publication:

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, ©2013.

Description:

206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

Edition Bauhaus ; 36

Notes:
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau, March 27-June 30, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references.
HISTORY OF AN EXHIBITION. The Bauhaus in Calcutta : world art since 1922 : on the topicality of an exhibition / Regina Bittner and Kathrin Rhomberg -- AESTHETICS OF EMANCIPATION. Modernity, art and national identity in India : background to the Bauhaus exhition in Calcutta, 1922 / Partha Mitter -- In search of a new visual culture / Topati Guha-Thakurta and Sanjukta Sunderason in coversation with Rgina Bittner and Kathrin Rhomberg -- Writing a transcultural modern : Calcutta, 1922 / Sria Chatterjee -- SCHOOLS OF DEPARTURE. Shantiniketan : a world university / R. Siva Kumar in conversation with Regina Bittner and Kathrin Rhomberg -- 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 diaspora 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 globalization : formation of the colonial modern / Kabena Mercer -- The exhibition as "re-job" : reconstructing the Bauhaus in Bengal / Saloni Mathur.
ISBN:

9783775736572 (pbk.)
3775736573 (pbk.)
9783775736565
3775736565

Subject:

Bauhaus History Exhibitions.
Indian Society of Oriental Art History Exhibitions.
Bauhaus History.
Bauhaus
Indian Society of Oriental Art
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) History 20th century Exhibitions.
Art, Indic 20th century Exhibitions.
Art, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Art de l'Inde 20e siècle Expositions.
Art 20e siècle Expositions.
Art, Indic
Art, Modern
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
Interviews.
Exhibition catalogs
History

Added entries:

Bittner, Regina.
Rhomberg, Kathrin.
Blume, Torsten.
Guha-Thakurta, Tapati.
Sunderason, Sanjukta.
Siva Kumar, R.
Bauhaus.
Edition Bauhaus ; Bd. 36.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285113
Call No.: BIB 224457
Status: Available

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