Sumathi Ramaswamy

Gebundenes Buch

Gandhi in the Gallery

The Art of Disobedience

Beschreibung

Mohandas K. Gandhi has been described as 'an artist of non-violence,' crafting as he did a set of practices of the self and politics that earned him the mantle of Mahatma, 'the great soul.'

Autor

Sumathi Ramaswamy is James B. Duke Professor of History and International Comparative Studies, and Chair of the Department of History, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. She has published extensively on language politics, gender studies, spatial studies and the history of cartography, visual studies and the modern history of art, and more recently, digital humanities and the history of philanthropy. Her published works include The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India and Husain’s Raj: Visions of Empire and Nation; and edited volumes, Barefoot Across the Nation: Maqbool Fida Husain and the Idea of India, and Empires of Vision (co-edited). She is a co-founder of Tasveerghar: A Digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture (www.tasveerghar.net). Her current work is a collaborative digital humanities project titled No Parallel? The Fatherly Bodies of Gandhi and Mao.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Roli Books Pvt Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 274mm x 213mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 990g
• ISBN-13: 9788194425786
• ISBN-10: 8194425786
• Artikelnr.: 60669278