Projects
Problems of Translation
This research aims to understand the processes by which different cultures meet in the context of avant-garde architecture, art and literature. In particular the project maps and compares the linkages and spread of modernism between European and Indian avant-gardes, through its art and architecture of the 1920s. Specific case studies include analysis of the Bengali artist Gaganendranath Tagore along with the Bauhaus painter Lyonel Feininger and the collaboration between Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet, novelist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and Sir Patrick Geddes, the Scottish town planner at Santiniketan.
ARC People: Martin Beattie
Outputs: ‘Problems of Translation: Lyonel Feininger and Gaganendranath Tagore’ at the Fourteenth Annual Indian Society of Oriental Art Exhibition, Kolkata, India
Key Collaborators: Association of Art Historians