In Malayalam, the language of Kerala in southwestern India, one "writes" pictures rather than painting them. For KCS Paniker, who came from Kerala and studied painting at the Madras College of Art, and rose to become the school's Principal, this linguistic turn of phrase sparked a body of work entitled Words and Symbols. From 1963 to his death in 1977, he played with script forms, tables, geometric diagrams, stick figures, astrology, and other knowledge systems. He described his work as "free calligraphy." This lecture invites you to join Rebecca Brown as she discusses Paniker and his contemporaries, and their work towards an artistic language for a decolonizing, free world.
Rebecca M. Brown is Professor of the History of Art and Chair of Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage Management programs at Johns Hopkins University. Her books include Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980 (2009), a critical engagement with modernism in the decades after decolonization, Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India (2010), which traces the genealogy of spinning and the anti-colonial movement of the early twentieth century, and Displaying Time: The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India (2017), a study of the diplomatic, museological, and cultural machinations of the long 1980s. She has co-edited seven volumes and special issues on photography, craft, place, and the art of Asia, and has curated exhibitions and consulted for museums and galleries in North America and India.
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