La Madre India nuda, un affare di Stato nazionale

Journal title PASSATO E PRESENTE
Author/s Arundhati Virmani
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2009/76
Language Italian Pages 26 P. 27-52 File size 2634 KB
DOI 10.3280/PASS2009-076002
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La Madre India nuda, un affare di Stato nazionale - In February 2006, a painting, representing a map of India in the form of a naked woman, entitled "Nude Bharatmata" (Nude Mother India) by Maqbool Fida Husain, appeared in an Indian magazine in English «India Today». A national affair: Nude Bharatmata 2006 analyses reactions in India and abroad, examines the Husain affair in the light of the longue durée of national iconography and highlights the coexistence of different, even conflictual expectations from national representations as India goes "global". Keywords: India, National identity, Iconography, History. Parole chiave: India, Identità nazionale, Iconografia, Storia.

Arundhati Virmani, La Madre India nuda, un affare di Stato nazionale in "PASSATO E PRESENTE" 76/2009, pp 27-52, DOI: 10.3280/PASS2009-076002