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100			_aJuneja, Monica
245		0	_aMotherland _cMonica Juneja and Sumathi Ramaswamy _bPushpamala N.’s woman and nation
260			_bRoli Books _c2022 _aNew Delhi
300			_a136 p. _b:ill.
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aPhotography
942			_cENGLISH
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