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Visual Culture in India and the Museum
February 10, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Alison Byrnes, a member of the 2006 MSP cohort, recently returned from seven years teaching in India, where she initiated a new Museum Studies Program. She will discuss museums in India through the lens of visuality. There is a mismatch between the cultural signals regarding value and significance, determined by colonial Western influences, in the Museum, and those that exist elsewhere in India, such as the Temple. In her talk, Byrnes will re-examine Martin Jay’s theory of “scopic regimes” in terms of Indian visual culture, and discuss the role of museums in a place where rapid urban growth and globalizing influences are causing tension with the values of “tradition.”
Presented by Alison Byrnes, MFA, Art & Design
Friday, February 10 at 12:00 pm in the UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125)
