Four Lives of a Balakrishna Bronze Público
Hunt, Sojourner (Spring 2022)
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Abstract
This thesis tells the life history of the Michael C. Carlos Museum’s Dancing Balakrishna bronze statue through a cultural biography. Despite the known life history of the bronze being incomplete, four life phases emerge: life in India, life in a private collection, life on the art market, and life in the Michael C. Carlos Museum.Through a cultural biography, this thesis examines how the institutions, religions, economic environments, cultures, centuries, and buildings surrounding the bronze affected the construction of value and meaning in four phases of the bronze's life; and demonstrates that a biographical approach is still generative in an object whose known history is incomplete.
Table of Contents
Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………… 2
Chapter 1: Life in India ………………………………………………………………………….. 6
Chapter 2: Life in a Private Collection ………………………………………………………… 30
Chapter 3: Life on the Art Market ……………………………………………………………... 51
Chapter 4: Life in the Michael C. Carlos ………………………………………………………. 59
Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….74
Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………………..79
Appendix I……………………………………………………………………………………….87
Appendix II………………………………………………………………………………………88
Appendix III ……………………………………………………………………………………..89
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