From Gods to Social Justice: Indian Folk Artists Challenging Traditions
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Representing two painting styles of eastern India, this exhibition includes a male tradition of scrolls from Bengal and a female tradition of wall paintings, now done on paper, from the Mithila region of northern Bihar. Both of these art forms have morphed and changed in contemporary India, creating space for artists to use their art to comment on issues facing their lives, their nation and the planet. Their work deals with a variety of injustices such as violence against women, female infanticide, political corruption, climate change, and war.
From the collections of Geraldine Forbes, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of SUNY Oswego, and Susan Wadley, the Ford Maxwell Professor of South Asia at Syracuse University.
For more information, please contact Emera Bridger Wilson at elbridge@syr.edu.
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