Partha Mitter
Partha Mitter is a
historian of art and culture. He is the author of Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art; Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850–1922: Occidental Orientation; Indian Art (part of the Oxford Art History series); and The Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant-garde 1922–1947. He
is emeritus professor in art history at the University of Sussex, a member of
Wolfson College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow at the Victoria & Albert
Museum.
Collapsing CertaintiesArt history that presents the Western canon as universal creates a world of inclusions and exclusions, undermining local voices and practices. Let us consider a redefinition of cosmopolitanism that demands the study of art in its social and cultural setting. Read More