MeMoMu_PNS_010 KALI / KUMARI _ CALCUTTA ART STUDIO / ENDEL LEPP FASHION HOUSE
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bengalis drew upon Kali’s association with battle and her identity as a mother to express anti-colonial sentiments.
—From Divine Color by Laura Weinstein and Mark Baron (MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). Now in the Morbid Anatomy Library!
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She Is Flame of Life · Trepaneringsritualen
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Advertisements for Kali cigarettes and other medicines, ca. 1890–1900. Chromolithograph. Printed and published by Calcutta Art Studio.
“In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bengalis drew upon Kali’s association with battle and her identity as a mother to express anti-colonial sentiments. The idea of the nation as a mother had emerged in the 1870s and 1880s in both literary and political contexts, and Kali was one of several goddesses through whom this construct could be brought to life. Womanly, yet fierce and defiant, she could be seen simultaneously as a figure needing protection and as a symbol of resistance.”
—From Divine Color by Laura Weinstein and Mark Baron (MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). Now in the Morbid Anatomy Library!
Be sure to check out the exhibition featuring the MFA’s collection of 38 vibrant lithographs from 19th-century Calcutta, on view through May 31!
— kasutajatega artbook ja mfaboston.
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