26 septembre 2021
Jennifer Bürk, « Pragmatism and Steel: For Monica », Art History and Transculturation, ID : 10670/1.mhue19
by Karin Zitzewitz, Michigan State University I “met” Monica, first, as the author of “Reclaiming the Public Sphere: Husain's Portrayals of Saraswati and Draupadi,” a compact and astute art historical commentary on the accusations of obscenity that were lodged by Hindu nationalist agitators against Indian artist M. F. Husain, beginning in 1996.[i] A graduate student in anthropology, I was interested in visual culture as public culture—as a site of debate and contestation, and of complex and l...