{"id":5405,"title":"Santhal Family","dimensions":"","date_begin":"1938-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":24,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":16,"permalink":"santhal-family","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Sculpture","nl":"Sculptuur","fr":"Sculpture"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/010/871/large/Ramkinkar_baij__Santhal_Family__Public_Sculpture__1938.jpg?1342453085","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"Considered to be the first major modernist public sculpture in India, *Santhal Family* combines an interest in the forms of modernism and temple/traditional sculpture with a concern for ground level reality. Depicting a family group from the Santhal tribe carrying their possessions with them to a new place of work, it is a portrait of labour that presents the complexity of its subject without heroism or pathos. ","description":"The Santhal Family made by the artist Ramkinkar Baij in 1938, is the first modernist public sculpture in India. Its sheer physical presence on the campus in Bengal where it stands, its combination of ancient and modern, Eastern and Western aesthetics and its subject matter of migrant tribal labour give it a unique place in Indian art history. It produces a narrative about art and society that reaches well beyond the works immediate context and opens up a discursive sphere in which questions such as the ethics of representation, the politics of gesture, the location of modernism and a desire for world culture are played out."},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"De *Santhal Family* van de kunstenaar Ramkinkar Baij, is de eerste openbare modernistische sculptuur in India. De fysieke aanwezigheid op de campus in Bengalen, de combinatie van oud en modern, oosterse en westerse esthetiek en het onderwerp van tribale migrantenarbeid verlenen het werk een unieke plaats in de Indische kunstgeschiedenis. De sculptuur laat een verhaal zien over kunst en maatschappij dat verder reikt dan de onmiddellijke context van het werk en opent een discursieve sfeer waarin vragen als de ethiek van het beeld, de gebarenpolitiek, de plaats van het modernisme en een verlangen naar wereldcultuur uitgebeeld worden. "},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1055,"name":"Ramkinkar Baij","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}