Bauhaus in Calcutta : an encounter of the cosmopolitan Avant-Garde /
edited by Regina Bittner and Kathrin Rhomberg ; texts by Torsten Blume [et 8 autres] ; conversations with Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Sanjukta Sunderason and with R. Siva Kumar ; translation, Rebecca Philipps Williams.
- Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2013.
- 206 p.
- Edition Bauhaus, 36 .
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.
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