Contemporary Art and its Histories Workshop

We are pleased to join the Committee on South Asian Studies in welcoming Kajri Jain, Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Culture at the University of Toronto. Jain's work includes studies on South Asian visual culture, cinema and contemporary art, postcolonial modernities and mass cultures, gender, sexuality, corporeality, and transcultural exchange. Her 2007 book, Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art, examines the power that calendar art wields in post-colonial Indian mass culture and the ways that it has developed in close connection with a religiously inflected nationalism. Her current work focuses on religious statues in post-liberalization India, television and globalization, art and intersubjectivity, and landscape in Indian mass culture.

The reading for this workshop is available for download here.

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