Past Event
Saturday, November 15, 2014, 3 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Originality and Imitation in Mughal Painting (1580–1630)
1450 El Prado, San Diego, 92101
Cost: Free - $20
Focusing on Mughal Occidental paintings and their Western counterparts, this lecture by Mika Natif, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art History at George Washington University, will offer a nuanced study that demonstrates how the idea of an “unsuccessful copy,” used to explain these paintings, can be linked to our contemporary neo-colonial perceptions of East–West encounters.
By analyzing visual and textual evidence, the speaker will examine works of art from the Mughals’ viewpoint, observing how the artists reconfigured European visual material using ideas, techniques, and iconography that were related to Christian and Western concepts but translated into an Indian idiom.