CANCELED PROGRAM
(Not) Reading the Signs: The Painting of KCS Paniker
Rebecca M. Brown, professor and director of graduate studies, history of art and chair of advanced academic programs in museum studies and cultural heritage management, Johns Hopkins University

KCS Paniker (1911-77), an artist based in Madras in southern India, made pictures that combine diagrams, mathematical equations, drawings of deities, animals and birds, and passages of text in curlicues across and in the interstices of these other forms. He was a master of modernism in a post-colonial nation, and this talk introduces us to his later works, all aptly titled Words and Symbols.

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Image information: KCS Paniker, Geometrical Order (Words and Symbols), 1971,  oil on canvas, 60 x 73 in, Paniker Museum