"The Shadow of 'Authenticity': Museums, Temples & the Display of Religious Icons" lecture by Prof John Cort at School of Arts & Aesthetics ( SAA ), JNU, New Mehrauli Road > 4:30pm on 5th August 2011
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Event Details : The School of Arts and Aesthetics is pleased to invite you to The Shadow of "Authenticity": Museums, Temples and the Display of Religious Icons' lecture by Prof John Cort, Professor and Director of the Department of Religion.
Dr John Cort is an eminent scholar of Indian religion whose distinguished work has focussed on the place of temples, icons, texts and traditions in Jainism. His recent book, Framing the Jinas: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History (New York, OUP, 2010) discusses Jain discourses and practices concerning temple images.
In this talk, Dr Cort will address the issues that arise when objects made for temple contexts move into the museum. How should such objects be displayed? What do they gain, and what do they lose, if they are presented as autonomous aesthetic objects? Conversely, if they are contextualised as ritual objects, does this deny them the right to be art? Taking up issues and specific instances, Dr Cort’s seminar will engage with issues of ‘authenticity,’ meaning, and value ascribed to art in shifting institutional locations.
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Place : Auditorium, School of Arts & Aesthetics ( SAA ), Jawaharlal Nehru University ( JNU ), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067
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Event Details : The School of Arts and Aesthetics is pleased to invite you to The Shadow of "Authenticity": Museums, Temples and the Display of Religious Icons' lecture by Prof John Cort, Professor and Director of the Department of Religion.
Dr John Cort is an eminent scholar of Indian religion whose distinguished work has focussed on the place of temples, icons, texts and traditions in Jainism. His recent book, Framing the Jinas: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History (New York, OUP, 2010) discusses Jain discourses and practices concerning temple images.
In this talk, Dr Cort will address the issues that arise when objects made for temple contexts move into the museum. How should such objects be displayed? What do they gain, and what do they lose, if they are presented as autonomous aesthetic objects? Conversely, if they are contextualised as ritual objects, does this deny them the right to be art? Taking up issues and specific instances, Dr Cort’s seminar will engage with issues of ‘authenticity,’ meaning, and value ascribed to art in shifting institutional locations.
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"The Shadow of 'Authenticity': Museums, Temples & the Display of Religious Icons" lecture by Prof John Cort at School of Arts & Aesthetics ( SAA ), JNU, New Mehrauli Road > 4:30pm on 5th August 2011
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