area of interest
shivani sanghai
MY AREA OF INTEREST
WHAT IS "MODERN" IN THE WEST IS NOT WHAT "MODERN" IS IN INDIA OR IN FACT IN ANY OTHER PLACE; THEREFORE IT DIFFERS FROM PLACE TO PLACE AND TIME TO TIME. THIS IS DUE TOI VARIOUS CULTURAL BELIEFS/ASPECTS EXISTING WITHIN THAT PARTICULAR SPACE AND TIME. FOR EG. THE CONCEPT OF "BEAUTY" HAS ALSO BEEN CHANGING OVER A PERIOD OF TIME AND FROM PLACE TO PLACE, WHAT BEAUTY WAS DEFINED IN THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD HAS SURELY CHANGED FROM THE NOTION OF BEAUTY AT PRESENT TIMES - CULTURE AND SOCIETY HAS A LOT TO DO WITH IT AS WELL.
THEREFORE THE QUESTIONS, WHICH I HAVE IN MIND, ARE: -
HOW DOES CULTURAL IMAGE BRING ABOUT A CHANGE IN THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THAT PARTICULAR PLACE AND TIME"?
HOW DOES ONE THEN DIFFERENTIATE "TRADITIONAL" FROM "MODERN" IN REFERENCE TO THE CONTEXT AND PERIOD?
WHAT IS "MODERNITY" IN HISTORY?
ARCHITECTURE IN INDIA HAS STARTED BECOMING A "TRANSFER OF IMAGES" FROM THE CULTURES AND NORMS OF THE WEST RATHER IT SHOULD BE A "TRANSFORMATION OF IMAGES" INORDER TO BRING ABOUT AN INDIAN IDENTITY.
WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ARCHITECTURE??? IS IT THE INDIAN HISTORY/ MYTHOLOGIES + VARIOUS INDIAN ELEMENTS + THE CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS ALONG WITH CERTAIN THINGS COMING FROM COLONISATION AND MULTICULTURALISM WHICH MAKES A PARTICULAR PIECE OF WORK PURELY INDIAN …………….