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Subject: H-ASIA: CONF Asian Art, University of Bonn, October 2011
> H-ASIA
> July 19, 2011
>
> Conference on Asian Art at the University of Bonn, 13-15 October 2011
>
> (x-post Indology)
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> From: Julia Hegewald <julia.hegewald@UNI-BONN.DE>
>
> Dear Colleagues and Friends,
>
> I would like to inform you about an international conference, entitled
>
> In the Shadow of the Golden Age:
> Art and Identity in Asia from Gandhara to the Modern Age
>
> which my DFG-funded research team and my department are organising at The
> University of Bonn from
>
> 13. - 15. October 2011.
>
> Please find the provisional programme and a short conference description
> below. Further information can be found on our webpage:
> www.aik.uni-bonn.de
>
> For further information, please contact myself or Navina Sarma
> (navina@uni-bonn.de). I will be circulating the final version of the
> programme in late September.
>
> Looking forward to seeing you in Bonn.
>
> Julia Hegewald
> Professor of Oriental Art History
> University of Bonn
>
>
>
> Provisional Programme
>
> Please note that this programme is still provisional and that changes in
> the
> sequence of papers and in the timings may be made over the next few
> months.
> The final programme will be available shortly before the start of the
> conference.
>
>
> Thursday 13th October 2011
> 16:00-17:00 Registration and tea
>
> 17:00-18:30 Keynote address: Partha Mitter
> The Keynote Paper: the Role of History and Memory in Modernity
>
> 19:00 Conference dinner for participants
>
>
> Friday 14th October 2011:
> 09:30-10:30 Registration
>
> 10:30-11:30 Susan L. Huntington
> Buddhist Art Through a Modern Lens: A Case of a Mistaken Scholarly
> Trajectory
>
> John C. Huntington
> Bactro-Gandharan Art Beyond its Homeland
>
> 11:30-12:00 Coffee
>
> 12:00-13:00 Ciro Lo Mucio
> The Legacy of Gandhara in Central Asian Painting
>
> Petra Rösch
> Illusionary Narratives: The Deconstruction of the Tang Dynasty as
> the "Golden Age" of Chan Buddhism in China.
>
> 13:00-14:30 Lunch
>
> 14:30-15:30 William A. Southworth
> Iconoclasm and Temple Transformation at Angkor from the 13th to
> 15th Centuries
>
> Tiziana Lorenzetti
> Political and Social Dimension as Reflected in the Medieval
> Sculptures of South India: Confrontations, antagonism and identity
>
> 15:30-16:00 Tea
>
> 16:00-17:00 Mallica Kumbera Landrus
> Trans-Cultural Temples: Identity and Practice in Goa
>
> Sarah Shaw
> Art and Narrative in Changing Conditions: Southern Buddhist temple
> art as an accommodation of the new and diverse
>
> 17:00-17:30 Drinks
>
> 17:30 - 18:30 Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Julia A. B. Hegewald
> Golden Age or Kali-Yuga?: The Changing Fortunes of Jaina Art and
> Identity in Karnataka
>
> 19:00 Conference dinner for participants
>
>
> Saturday 15th October 2011:
>
> 09:30-10:30 Jennifer Howes
> Indian Company Painting: 1780 to 1820
>
> Eva-Maria Troelenberg
> The Golden Age and the Secession: Approaches to Alterity in early
> 20th Century World Art
>
> 10:30-11:00 Coffee
>
> 11:00-12:30 Parul Dave Muckerji
> Who is afraid of Utopia? Contemporary Indian Artists and Their
> Retakes on "Golden" age
>
> Nalini Balbir
> Old Texts, New Images: Illustrating the Shvetambara Jain Agamas
> today
>
> Christoph Emmrich
> Loss, Damage, Repair and Prevention in the Historiography of Newar
> Religious Artefacts
>
> 12:30-14:00 Lunch
>
> 14:00-15:15 Regina Höfer
> 'Buddha@hotmail' - Contemporary Tibetan Argoes Global
>
> Daniel Redlinger (IOA, The University of Bonn)
> Building for the brothers? Indo-Islamic architectural citations in
> the recent architecture of South Arabia
>
> Concluding session
>
> 15:15-15:45 Tea
>
> 15:45-18:00 Coach to Cologne and visit to Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum
>
>
>
> Conference Abstract:
> In the Shadow of the Golden Age:
> Art and Identity in Asia from Gandhara to the Modern Age
>
> This international conference brings together specialists in the visual
> arts
> and humanities working on material from a wide range of periods and
> regions
> throughout Asia, the Islamic world and the Western diaspora. Instead of
> concentrating on the so-called 'high points' and 'golden ages' of art,
> which
> have so far stood generally at the centre of art-historical enquiries,
> this
> symposium focuses on visual expressions of confrontation with the 'other,'
> struggle or isolation during times of change. These challenging but
> artistically fertile periods were marked by intense efforts by communities
> in search for new identities. Through their art and frequently through the
> re-use of old symbols in new settings they succeeded in redefining
> themselves so as to strengthen their religious, cultural or political
> position. In the history of art, these less investigated phases raise
> issues, which hold the promise of new significant contributions to the
> subject.
>
> What happened to Gandharan art after its main phase of flowering came to
> an
> end in its traditional heartland? How does Hindu temple architecture react
> to a majority Christian cultural environment in Goa? In which ways do new
> rulers and religions, e.g. in medieval South India and at Angkor, relate
> to
> the sacred places and icons of previous cultures and religious groups and
> how do the disposed and dispossessed deal with their loss and react to the
> new?
> The confrontation with the 'other' has been particularly pronounced during
> periods of colonisation throughout Asia. How did British colonial
> officials
> and Indian artists commissioned by them represent the different facets of
> the empire, how was world art exhibited and interpreted in the West and
> how
> were (and are?) categories such as 'masterpiece' or 'golden age' employed
> to
> classify and judge art?
>
> A further particularly fertile area of enquiry is the modern age in which
> many traditions (religious, regal or social) appear to be threatened by
> globalisation and changes in value. The diverse examples of modern day
> artistic expressions taken from Arabia, India, Nepal and Thailand to be
> presented during this conference, however, suggest impressive acts of
> survival and creative adaptation, which enable continuity and the
> endurance
> of forms, meanings and practices under new disguises.
>
> --
> Prof. Dr. Julia A. B. Hegewald
> Professor of Oriental Art History
> Head of Department
> Universität Bonn
> Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften (IOA)
> Abteilung für Asiatische und Islamische Kunstgeschichte
> Adenauerallee 10
> D – 53113 Bonn
> Germany
>
> Email: julia.hegewald@uni-bonn.de
> Tel. 0049-228-73 7213
> Fax. 0049-228-73 4042
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