"Between Mimicry and Mimesis" a talk by Parul Dave Mukherji at School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 5pm on 20th March 2015

Time : 5:00 pm (Tea will be served at 4.30 pm) Add to Calendar 20-03-2015 17:00:00 20-03-2015 18:30:00 68 "Between Mimicry and Mimesis" a talk by Parul Dave Mukherji Event Page : http://goo.gl/hvp9nN School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067
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Event Description : The School of Arts and Aesthetics presents "Between Mimicry and Mimesis" a talk by Parul Dave Mukherji
Contesting the Common Sense of Indian Aesthetics via Performative Mimesis or Anukrtivada.

The study of Indian aesthetics has long suffered from the twin burden of colonial and nationalist definitions of aesthetics, steeped in a binary opposition between the West and India. 

This double legacy has led to a cultural myopia concerning a vibrant discourse around “mimesis” or anukrti preserved in Abhinavabharati on the account of its presumed affinity with the Western mimesis. Anukŗti, - a term cognate to mimesis- similar but not quite the same, constituted one of the central concerns of aesthetics and poetics from the time of the Natyasastra, the ur text on dramaturgy by Bharata of around the first century CE, until 11th century CE when Abhinavagupta formulated a resounding demolition of this theory or Anukarana-vada in his commentary on the same text. 

Critiquing Indian historiography’s dismissal of this theory, this talk will bring into focus the overlooked discourse by staging a conversation between the supporters and the critics

Parul Dave-Mukherji is professor in Visual Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She holds a PhD in Indology from Oxford University where she worked on a critical edition of The Citrasutra of the Visnudharmottara Purana (IGNCA, New Delhi 2002).  Her research interests include global art history, contemporary Asian Art and Comparative Aesthetics. Her recent publications include InFlux- Contemporary Art in Asia, (co-edited) New Delhi, Sage, 2013 and  Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalizing World (co-edited), London: Bloomsbury, 2014.

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