ARH 295-01 - Special Topic: Art of Decolonization in India and South Asia

4 credits (Fall)

In the context of resistance and decolonization, India produced its own, distinctive version of modernism, apart from the Western world, out of its diversity and tensions between spiritual traditions and secularism, its simultaneous orientation to the democratic West and the socialist East, between its village past and its urban future. Modernism in art, architecture, and urban planning offered a dynamic alternative to the burdensome heritage of British colonial rule.

Prerequisite: Second-semester standing.
Instructor: Mackenzie