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Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies
Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu
Tel: 977-1-331740; Fax: 977-1-331184
You are cordially invited to a talk programme at CNAS.
Speaker: Dr. Katherine Anne Harper
Topic: Neo-Tantra in the Painting of South Asia
Date: Friday, March 15, 2002
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Hall, CNAS, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur
Yours sincerely,
Prof.Dr. Tirtha P. Misra
Executive Director
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Abstract of Talk
Post-colonial South Asian artists have faired poorly when subjected to Modernist Art Theory that views the western artistic traditions as being based on a progressive, scientific truth that sees itself as a global or transcendent viewpoint that regards all else as inferior.
Until recently, modernists of the subcontinent have been criticized as being derivative and producing poor imitations of western abstract works.However, the abstraction that evolved in modern South Asian art is not derivative of any western idiom, but rather it is the result of familiarity with long-standing indigenous religious symbolism and meditative devices employing abstract elements.
In this this, Dr. Harper will explore the use of tradtional, religious abstract imagery and its influence on certain post-colonial painters, particularly those who have been identified as neo-Tantric artists.
CV of Katherine Anne Harper
Ph.D. UCLA 1977 in the Art History and Archaeology of South Asia. Current Position: Associate Professor of Asia Art History, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Courses taught include: Arts of Early India, Arts of Later India, Arts of Islam, Arts of China, Arts of Japan, Arts of Asia- Zen Buddhism.
Current Research: Fulbright Regional Scholar.
Title of Project: "Celebrating the Living Goddess in India and Nepal"
Publications include:
"The Warring Shaktis: A Paradigm for Gupta Conquest," The Roots of Tantra, Katherine Anne Harper and Robert L. Brown, editors (Albany: State Univeristy of New York Press, 2002).
Articles in Encyclopedia of the Ancient World (Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 2001).
Articles in Encyclopedia of Asia (Great Barrington, MA.: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2001).
"The Jina Malli: Jainsim and the Spirituality of Women," Women and Worship
in World Religions (Bangalore: Dharmaram Vidya Khetram, 2000).
"Daiunzan Ryoanji Sekitei - The Stone Garden of the Mountain Dragon's
Resting Temple: Soteriology and the Bodhimandala," The Pacific World:
Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, new series, 10 (Fall 1994):
116-130.
The Iconology of the Saptamatrikas: Seven Hindu Goddesses of Spiritual
Transformation (Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990).
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