Art and Nationalism in Colonial India (1850-1922) | Prof. Partha Mitter

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About the Speaker: Prof. Partha Mitter is a writer and historian of art and culture, specializing in the reception of Indian art in the West, as well as in modernity, art, and identity in India, and more recently in global modernism.
He studied history at London University and did his doctorate with E. H. Gombrich (1970). He began his career as Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge (1968-69) and Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge (1970-74). In 1974 he joined Sussex as a Lecturer in Indian History, retiring in 2002 as Professor in Art History.
His publications include Much Maligned Monsters: History of European Reactions to Indian Art (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1977: Chicago University Press Paperback, 1992; Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2013); Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations (Cambridge University Press, 1994); Indian Art, Oxford Art History Series (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002); The Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant-Garde - 1922-1947 (Reaktion Books, London, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2007). In 2000 he was invited by the Indian Government to set up the School of Art and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

[@unnatishe-her5916]

Thankyou so much for this webinar! Coukd you guys please post about upcoming webinars sometime before they happen on the community tab if possible? That way it would be easier to not miss out on the livestreams 😀 Regardless, thankyou for bringing these to us!

[@roopagirard2699]

Fabulous talk Prof. Mitter. Thanks Karwaan. Just amazing endeavour.

[@ajaysalunkhe1943]

Could you please inform us about changing art education and pedagogy with colonial and national background

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