Art and Emergency by Terracciano Emilia;

Author:Terracciano, Emilia;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited

Figure 3.7Gaganendranath Tagore, The University Factory, lithograph, from Wry Thunderbolt, 1917. Author’s collection.

In Botanical Cartoon or Forced Evolution under Artificial Illumination (of which a postcard is conserved at the Victoria and Albert Museum), Gaganendranath engages once more with Bergson to liken colonial education to a force-fed, mechanically-staged evolution (Figure 3.8). For Bergson, an intimate interdependence exists between life and matter, between expansion and contraction; the élan vital alienates itself in the material form that it creates and in so doing, loses ‘contact with the rest of itself’.132 Every species represents the statement of a problem in relation to matter, and the resolution of that problem. Each vital solution thus constitutes a relative success in relation to the conditions of its environment: between mollusc and plant, animal and man, there exist only degrees of difference in perfection.133

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