Ebook: Chila Kumari Burman: Shakti, Sexuality and Bindi girls

Copyrights; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Ice Cream works: 2006-2008; Burman at art school; Black art: an overview; What about the black sisters?; New ethnicities (1990s); Shakti; The sexual self; Self-Portrait: styling the self; Humour; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; About Chila Burman; List of illustrations.;A monograph on the artist, Chila Kumari Burman, which looks at her work in terms of her South Asian identity, her contribution to the black arts movement and Stuart Halls definitions of new ethnicities in contemporary Britain. Rina Arya examines a wide range of works made by the artist from the mid-1980s but focuses on her Ice-Cream series of works (2006-2008) and her Bindi Girls series. Rina Arya is Reader in Visual Communication at Wolverhampton University. This project is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.