TY  - BOOK
AU  - Juneja, Monica 
TI  - Motherland: Pushpamala N.’s woman and nation
SN  - 9789392130113
U1  - 759.954 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Roli Books
KW  - Photography
N2  - 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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