Herstories of the women visible and invisible

Early 20th century women art thinkers of Bengal

A talk by Dr. Aparna Roy Baliga (Art historian, translator and curator)

About the Talk:

This lecture brings forth the discourse of the idea of gendered indigenous modernism of early 20thc.Bengal focusing on the early 20thc.women artists and designers. The idea is not to write them back in history but to understand the construal of women in the art practices. It centres around the narratives that went into the making of these art thinkers.It is an attempt to bring forth the stories of absences of these women and draw the intertwining design history which is also aligned to these gendered spaces of modernism.

Date: 7 November, 2025 (Friday)

Time: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

For ages: 18 and above

Venue: Lecture Hall, L D Museum

*Tea will be served at 5:30 PM

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About the Speaker:

Dr. Aparna Roy Baliga is an Art historian, translator and curator who is interested in areas of Gender and Sexuality, Indian Aesthetics, Contemporary art practices and design histories. She presently teaches in the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Faculty of Fine Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. She had graduated in History of Art from Kala bhavana, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan and did her Post–graduation and doctoral studies in Art history and Aesthetics from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Her book ‘Transcending the Glass Case: The women Artists of Early 20th.c Bengal and the gendered Indigenous Modernism’ had been published in 2021.

Image: Published in ‘Transcending the Glass Case: The women Artists of Early 20th.c Bengal and the gendered Indigenous Modernism’ by Dr. Aparna Roy Baliga

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