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Art History in India and Its Discontents in Global Times Lecture | September 17 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | 308A  Doe Library Speaker:  Parul Dave-Mukherji , Professor,  School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University Sponsors:  Department of History of Art ,  Institute for South Asia Studies "What becomes of art history when the world shrinks into a planet? Globalization has posed a challenge as much to Eurocentric art histories in the west as to nationalist art histories in India. How does one evolve a narrative for Indian art when the logic of the narrative itself is at stake? Drawing from current debates about the impact of globalization on art history and art writing, I will assess their relevance for Indian art history and art practice. I will examine how cultural studies turn that helped widen the constituency of art objects via an anthropological understanding of art and how this paved the way for New art history in India and finally for visual studies in its wake.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Angler by Thomas Buchanan Read. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 29th, 2010.

Read's book describes the basic elements of composition and rhetoric: narrative form, eloquence, rhythm, and other important elements of what he asserts is valuable, worthwhile prose. The book is clearly dated, but it will be of especial interest to those studying works published before the Modernist movement in literature. - Summary by KevinS