BA, University of Nottingham. MFA, Goldsmiths, University of London. PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Specializing in modern and contemporary art from South Asia, Cold War histories of art, museum and exhibition studies. Current projects examine modernism in Pakistan and Bangladesh, the work of Iqbal Geoffrey (b.1939), and realism in postcolonial modernisms. Recipient of fellowships from the Asian Cultural Council, American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Modernist Studies Association, and Paul Mellon Center for the Study of British Art. SLC, 2021–
大学本科Courses 2021-2022
艺术史
全球现代主义，国际主义与冷战：1930年代，1960年代，1990年代
Open, Lecture—Year
This course is an introduction to diverse trajectories of modern and contemporary art from contexts that include Russia, Mexico, Iran, China, Japan, Argentina, India, Nigeria, Brazil, Ethiopia, Iraq, Egypt, and Pakistan, as well as Europe and North America. The course ties these trajectories together via the theme of “internationalism” and its shifting geopolitical stakes over the course of the 20th century. The course follows the creation of modern internationalism in institutions like the League of Nations, the United Nations, UNESCO, and the Non-Aligned Movement; to a shift from diplomatic internationalism to economic “developmentalism” and “globalization” led by institutions like the World Bank and the IMF; and related cultural internationalisms promoted by MoMA, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Venice and São Paulo Biennales, and even the Stalinist state and Chinese Communist Party. Lectures will examine topics like Mexican muralism and Rockefeller internationalism; Négritude and its influence on African postcolonial modernisms; the infamous “weaponization” of abstract expressionism during the Cold War; debates on socialist realism in the Second and Third Worlds; the arrival of postcolonial diasporas to London and Paris and, relatedly, developments in “calligraphic modernism” spanning from North Africa to East Asia; and finally the proliferation of post-medium and new media strategies around the world toward the end of the century. Taking a chronological journey through global modern and contemporary art, the course focuses on three key decades to examine how artists navigated the shifting pressures and opportunities of internationalism throughout the 20th century. We will ask: How did modern artists think about national identity and nationalism in the colonial and postcolonial periods? What were the stakes of abstraction versus realism in different Cold War contexts? Can modernism exist in a totalitarian state? How have “First World” ideologies informed how modernist history has been written in the past? How are global modernists expanding the canon today? And on whose terms? While the course will include canonical readings on modern and contemporary art from the West, we will also read work by thinkers including Hannah Arendt and Rabindranath Tagore on nationalism; Mark Mazower and Vijay Prashad on the shifting politics of internationalism; Geeta Kapur and Ferreira Gullar on postcolonial avant-gardes; and primary documents, including UNESCO conference proceedings and artist manifestoes. The course lays a particular focus on recent work on global modernism by scholars that include Chika Okeke-Agulu, Iftikhar Dadi, Kellie Jones, Joan Kee, Ana María Reyes, and Reiko Tomii. These readings will illustrate current debates and shifts in the field, opening onto questions of art historical method and ways of looking, especially as they pertain to contested and formerly marginalized domains of art history. Writing assignments will focus on New York-area collections; the course will include a guided field trip to MoMA.
Faculty
Home/Nation: 20th-Century Asian Art–via New York
Open, Seminar—Fall
该研讨会是印度，巴基斯坦，孟加拉国，日本，中国，台湾和韩国的现代和当代艺术的介绍。该课程摘自印度艺术家Rummana Hussain的“ Home/Nation”（1996年），这是一个多媒体装置，反映了本世纪末印度的政治暴力行为的上升，尤其是针对少数群体。1998年，侯赛因（Hussain）在纽约的一般艺术中完成了一项居住地，是1990年代“全球”和“多元文化”期间从亚洲展出的众多艺术家之一。这次研讨会在这一全球转折中阐述了这一全球转折，并追踪了该市亚洲艺术的先前历史。但是，我们的讨论和阅读还将在亚洲和纽约的现代和当代艺术的历史上度过平等的时间，这些历史都在各大洲，考虑相似之处，倒置，联系和之间之间的相似之处。因此，我们将检查像侯赛因这样的艺术家，他们可能只与那些生活在城市中的所有或大部分生活中的人一起访问纽约。所检查的艺术家将包括Toshi Shumizu，Rabindranath Tagore，Chao Chung-Hsiang，F。N。Souza，Isamu Noguchi，Zainul Abedin，Yoko ono，Tehching Hsieh，Zarina Hashmi和Shahzia Sikander。我们将考虑如何在20世纪，在亚洲和美国之间在“家庭”和“民族”之间分裂的艺术家，并考虑到包括非殖民化，冷战和新自由主义全球化在内的亚洲历史上的重大事件。我们还将探讨第一次世界大战和第二次世界大战对美国亚洲少数民族的影响/11和正在进行的冠状病毒大流行。从艺术上讲，我们将研究现实主义和抽象，摄影和表演以及新媒体和前卫策略的各种轨迹。 Students will have the opportunity to visit New York-based museums, galleries, and archival collections, including the Asia Art Archive, as part of in-class and individual assignments. Seminar discussion and final papers will focus on primary documents: institutional correspondences and historical newspaper and magazine reviews, artist writings and interviews, and archival photographs, among other documentary forms. These records will be used to build on existing histories of Asian art in/via New York and, if possible, to rediscover new or forgotten ones.