Rebecca M. Brown

South Asian Visual Culture and Politics

Modernity & Visual Culture

This project explores how Indian modernity is produced by and through the paradox of how to be both modern and Indian in the post-Independence period from 1947-1980. If the modern … Continue reading

April 6, 2012

Film & TV

Film and TV provide rich texts for understanding shifts in cultural politics, from questions of Orientalism to understandings of modernity and constructions of the past. These smaller projects examine individual … Continue reading

April 4, 2012

Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980

Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India

Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest

Contact

Teaching Professor
Johns Hopkins University
History of Art
3400 N. Charles St
Gilman 163
Baltimore MD 21218
tel. 410-516-0345
rmbrown@jhu.edu