Speaker: Susan Bean curates, writes, and consults on the visual arts and culture of modern South Asia, she Chairs the Advisory Committee of the Art & Archaeology Centre of the American Institute of Indian Studies and is an Associate of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University.

Chair: Naman Ahuja, Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Editor, MARG.

Air-dried clay (a.k.a. terracruda), along with stone, metal, wood, and fired clay, stands among South Asia’s oldest and most widely used mediums for sculpture. This presentation brings together some of the most prominent practices across the region to consider why painted air-dried clay has been so valued as a medium for figural sculpture, and what its side-lining reveals about the study of art and visual culture.

(Collaboration: American Institute of Indian Studies, Center for Art and Archaeology)