[Reader-list] fwd: inoffensive contemporary indian art -

[indersalim]

thanks dear chakarborty  for reflecting on the review, i liked it many ways,
 i too will do my bit to enlarge the debate,
but later

right now  you  may click please

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/dec/15/art-india-serpentine-gallery

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On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Angshukanta Chakraborty
<angshukanta at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the problem of  'inoffensiveness' will be taken care of by the tone
> and views of the 'independent' reviewer himself, whose yardstick of
> measuring Indian art is basically his characteristic ignorance of Indian
> art. That he begins with the matter-of-fact admission is also pretty
> much giving away the redundant-though-still-nomative take on
> Indian/non-Western art - Orientalised ornaments in pigments or pixels which
> isn't much worth knowing. He's amazed by the absence of things he considers
> offensive, which in a way boils down to some irreligious metaphor hurting a
> sentiment here or there thus successfully sparking off a mediagenic
> controversy . Perhaps, more than the physical absence of M F Hussain's
> artworks in this particular exhibition, which according to the reviewer,
> could have generated some aesthetic offensiveness, it is worth thinking how
> the questioning of Hussain's 'legendary' status, or brushing off his
> 'comparisons with Picasso', actually betrays the reviewer's openly expressed
> Eurocentrism,  and only a half-baked appreciation of art under a different
> rubric. The ignorance is not a start, it is a startling reiteration of the
> perpetuity of one-sided knowledge-systems that take inordinate amount of
> pleasure in rehashing old myths in a world that has gone much further ahead
> in understanding, intermingling and expanding the categories of art ,
> aesthetics and cultures. But for some, represented by the likes of this
> particular reviewer, the Art under discussion has not only not arrived, it
> very much never quite existed without the aesthetic sanction and
> appropriation of these self-aggrandising Western culture industries.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:56 PM, indersalim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> may click to read on Indian art abroad
>>
>>
>> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/safe-passage-to-india-inoffensive-indian-contemporary-art-1066813.html
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