{"product_id":"motherland-pushpamala-n-s-woman-and-nation-hardcover","title":"Motherland: Pushpamala N.'s Woman and Nation - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMonica Juneja\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSumathi Ramaswamy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis interdisciplinary scholarly catalog examines \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMotherland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, an important series of photo-performances by the acclaimed artist Pushpamala N. on the Indian nation personified as woman, mother, and goddess. The series shows Pushpamala taking on Mother India's myriad personifications: nubile beauty and saintly renunciant; militant goddess wearing a garland of skulls or receiving the ultimate sacrifice of a warrior's head; the mother-surgeon activating the birth of model citizens; and destitute widow, bent from years of abject labor. As she does so, she reveals that nations are invented, as are national embodiments. The artist's burden is to reveal the ingredients of such inventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMonica Juneja\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Global Art History at the University of Heidelberg. Her research and publications focus on transculturation and visual representation, disciplinary practices of art history in South Asia, gender and political iconography, history of visuality in early modern South Asia and architectural histories and heritage. She is the author of the recently published \u003ci\u003eDisaster as Image: Iconographies and Media Strategies across Asia and Europe; EurAsian Matters: China, Europe and the Transcultural Object\u003c\/i\u003e. Her forthcoming book is \u003ci\u003eCan Art History be made Global? Meditations from the Periphery\u003c\/i\u003e. Monica Juneja edits the Series \u003ci\u003eVisual and Media Histories \u003c\/i\u003e(Routledge), is on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eVisual History of Islamic Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e (De Gruyter), \u003ci\u003eDing, Materialität, Geschichte\u003c\/i\u003e (Böhlau), \u003ci\u003eÄsthetische Praxis\u003c\/i\u003e (Brill), \u003ci\u003eHistory of Humanities\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Chicago Press), and is co-editor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Transcultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eSumathi Ramaswamy \u003c\/b\u003eis James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of History and International Comparative Studies at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. She has published extensively on language politics, gender studies, spatial studies and the history of cartography, visual studies and the modern history of art, and more recently, digital humanities and the history of philanthropy. Her published works include \u003ci\u003eGandhi in the Gallery: The Art of Disobedience; The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eHusain's Raj: Visions of Empire and Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. Her digital curatorial projects include \u003ci\u003eGoing Global in Mughal India\u003c\/i\u003e (https: \/\/sites.duke.edu\/globalinmughalindia\/) and \u003ci\u003eB is for Bapu: Gandhi in the Art of the Child in Modern India\u003c\/i\u003e (https: \/\/sites.duke.edu\/bisforbapu\/). She is a co-founder of \u003ci\u003eTasveerghar: A Digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (www.tasveerghar.net).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 11.26 x 8.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 03, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47710418698493,"sku":"9789392130113","price":44.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/zAvQZU0CyO9789392130113.webp?v=1781483431","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/motherland-pushpamala-n-s-woman-and-nation-hardcover","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}