FROM GODDESS TO PIN-UP

Icons of Femininity in Indian Calendar Painting

28.2.2001—22.4.2001

MAK Works on Paper Room

Pervasive in shops, apartments, and workplaces, gaudy calendar pictures constitute a characteristic aspect of Indian everyday culture. Ranging from the representation of Hindu goddesses (‘dharmic icons’) to pin-ups (‘filmi icons’), these pictures elucidate the role of women in popular iconography. The 90 pictures shown in the exhibition – including 5 original designs – come from the collection of Patricia and J. P. S. Uberoi.

Curator Rainald Franz

FROM GODDESS TO PIN-UP

Icons of Femininity in Indian Calendar Painting

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