Thursday, October 4, 2018

New Visual Essays from 'Manly Matters' Project

We are happy to announce a new visual essay on our website as part of our ongoing project ‘Manly Matters’ about the iconographies of the masculine in South Asian visual culture.

Sarunas Paunksnis and Runa Chakraborty: Masculine Anxiety in the Films of Anurag Kashyap
"Kashyap’s films act as representatives of a new social order currently prevailing in India and compel us to understand the complex process through which the notion of masculinity is being continually configured."
http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/189/

You may also see our previous features from the same project that were announced earlier: 

Shabnam Naher and Mossabber Hossain: Male Beautification and the Beauty Salon, Changing Perceptions of 'Masculinity' among Males in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Rupali Sehgal: Selling Intoxicating Bondings: Hyper Masculinity and Print Alcohol Ads in India.
A gallery of Indian liquor advertisements showing the tropes of masculinity.
http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/183/

Sourav Roy: The Constitution of India: A National Gallery of a Few Good Men.
A visual essay on the Constitution of India as a visual document embodying masculine ideals.
http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/184/

Gaurav Kalra: Politics of Posture and Sartorial Sagacity: The Construction of Ascetic Masculinity in Vivekananda’s Photographs and Posters
http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/185/

We would wait to receive your feedback on these essays and images, which you can provide using Comments box at the end of the essays/galleries.

Tasveer Ghar team
(Christiane Brosius, Sumathi Ramaswamy, Yousuf Saeed)

You can also write to us at tasveerghar@gmail.com or yousuf@tasveergharindia.net

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