India, Canada initiative on art
September 2nd, 2011 - 9:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sept 2 (IANS) The National Museum Institute and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute in the capital here will present a four-day special lecture on the indigenous art of Canada by art historian Stephen Inglis Sep 5-8.
The lecture series is part of a bilateral initiative by the governments of India and Canada to strengthen bilateral cultural ties, the National Museum said Friday.
It comes after a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper after the G-8 summit in June 2010.
Inglis will look into how indigenous art is represented in Canadian museums.
He will address issues in the museological study and representation of ?First Peoples? or ?First Nations?, who are referred to as natives, tribals and ‘adivasi’ in India.
The historian will also compare similarities in representations of tribal art in museums in India and Canada.
The illustrated lectures will introduce the arts of various indigenous groups.
Inglis is a Canadian anthropologist and art historian who specialises in the artistic traditions of the indigenous people of North America and is a well-known specialist in the traditional arts of India.
Inglis holds an M.A. in Museology and Indian Art from Calcutta University, where he studied Indian art architecture, folk arts, crafts and ethnography of tribal societies.
Inglis has studied Tamil language and south Indian culture from Madurai-Kamaraj University in Madurai.
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