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<span class="style2"><b>Visual Homes, Image Worlds: Essays from Tasveer Ghar, the House of Pictures</b></span><br />
<span class="style2">Edited by Christiane Brosius, Sumathi Ramaswamy and Yousuf Saeed</span><br />
<span class="style2">Published by Yoda Press, New Delhi, 2015<b><br /></b></span><br />
ISBN: 978-93-82579-07-6<br />
93-82579-07-9<br />
Pages xiv+355<br />
Price (in India): Rs.1950. <br /><a href="http://www.amazon.in/Visual-Homes-Image-Worlds-Pictures/dp/9382579079/" target="_blank">Purchase at amazon.in</a><br />
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This book brings together fascinating essays that take the reader
through the everyday and exceptional worlds constituted by Indian
popular visual culture. The authors represented here, amongst the
leading authorities on the subject, take on for due consideration genres
ranging from mass-produced print to photography and film in order to
explore how the dynamics of affect and belief, patriotism and love,
consumption and urbanization, animate the vibrant world of Indian
popular pictures.<br />
Founded in 2006 by the editors of this volume as a collaborative
transnational enterprise, Tasveer Ghar (‘the House of Pictures’) is a
trans-national virtual site for collecting, digitizing, and documenting
various materials produced by South Asia’s exciting popular visual
sphere. To learn more, please visit <a href="http://www.tasveerghar.net/">http://www.tasveerghar.net/</a><br />
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<b>List of Essays:</b><br />
Introduction - <span class="style2">Christiane Brosius, Sumathi Ramaswamy and Yousuf Saeed</span><br />
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1. Good Morning, Welcome, Svagatam - Patricia Uberoi<br />
2. Eid Mubarak: Cross-cultural image exchange in Muslim South Asia - Yousuf Saeed<br />
3. Artful Mapping in Bazaar India - Sumathi Ramaswamy<br />
4. Picturing Mountains as Hills: Hill station postcards and the tales they tell - Shashwati Talukdar<br />
5. Monuments, Landscapes and Romance in Indian Popular Imagery - Kajri Jain<br />
6. The Looks and Sites of Love: Valentine’s Day greeting cards in urban India - Christiane Brosius<br />
7. Fantasizing the Mughals and Popular Perceptions of the Taj Mahal - Catherine B Asher</div>
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8. Temple in a Frame: God posters for and of worship - Richard Davis<br />
9. Miniature Societies and Grihani Aesthetics - Annapurna Garimella<br />
10. Gods on Tiles: Syncretic, portable religious icons as vehicles of streetscape management in Mumbai - Amit Madheshiya & Shirley Abraham<br />
11. Chennai Beautiful: Shifting urban landscapes and the politics of spectacle - Roos Gerritsen<br />
12. K. Madhavan: ‘The Norman Rockwell of South India’ - Stephen Inglis</div>
13. The Commodity Image in the Post-Colony - Arvind Rajagopal<br />
14. Consumption and Identity: Imagining ‘everyday life’ through popular visual culture - Sandria Freitag<br />
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15. Chai Why? The triumph of tea in India as captured in advertising imagery - Philip Lutgendorf<br />
16. Modernity at Home: Leisure, autonomy and the new woman in India - Abigail McGowan<br />
17. Selling Soap and Stardom: The story of Lux - Sabeena Gadihoke<br />
18. Still Magic: An Aladdin’s cave of 1950s B movie fantasy - Rosie Thomas<br />
19. Miss Use—The sexy lady on Bhojpuri music album covers - Vishal Rawlley<br />
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