![]() ![]() 250 pagesįocusing on the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India between April and December 2021, Rustom Bharucha reflects on four interconnected realities that haunted this ongoing crisis―death, grief, mourning, and extinction. ![]() Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance and Popular Culture. ![]() The author considers how the Indian past was rendered as one of martial resistance to ‘foreign’ rule, the manner in which artists worked with mythic material, and, of course, the treatment of the larger-than-life figures of Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, Subhas Bose, and other patriots in nationalist art. Recent scholarly work has been almost entirely riveted on nationalist prints, and much of it has focused on the idea of Bharat Mata, but this book seeks to furnish a more rounded account of the artwork-including etchings, paintings, woodblocks prints, and cartoons-contemporary to the freedom struggle and also highlights the work of neglected artists such as Babuji Shilpi, S.L. The book explores not merely how Indian printmakers and artists responded to the freedom struggle but rather how the art they fashioned invoked their own conception of the nation, their sense of the past, and the contours of the movement for India’s emancipation from the yoke of colonial oppression. Insurgency and the Artist: Art of the Freedom Struggle in India. ![]()
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