Motherland: Pushpamala N.'s Woman And Nation

By Monica Juneja, Sumathi Ramaswamy

Motherland: Pushpamala N.'s Woman And Nation

By Monica Juneja, Sumathi Ramaswamy

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Specifications

Print Length

136 pages

Language

English

Publisher

Roli Books

Publication date

1 January 2022

ISBN

9789392130113

Description

This interdisciplinary scholarly catalogue examines Motherland, 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 mothersurgeon 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.


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