Tuesday, 11 January 2011
5.30pm, Research Forum South Room

Professor Partha Mitter (University of Sussex): Emergence of Indian Modernism in the 1920s

Scholar, professor and renowned art historian Partha Mitter is Emeritus Professor of art history at University of Sussex, England; a member of Wolfson College, Oxford University; and past fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He is the author of Much Maligned Monsters. A History of European Reactions to Indian Art (Clarendon Press, 1977); Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922 (Cambridge University Press, 1994); and The Triumph of Modernism: Indian Artists and the Avant-garde 1922-1947 (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

Recommended readings*:

• Partha MITTER, The Triumph of Modernism: India's Artists and the Avant-garde, 1922-47, University of Chicago Press, 2007.

• Rabindranath TAGORE, On Art and Aesthetics: A Selection of Lectures, Essays and Letters, Kolkata : Subarnarekha, 2005. Chapter: ‘Art and Tradition’ (pp 51-56)

• Rabindranath TAGORE, Nationalism, Penguin Books India, 2009. Chapter: ‘Nationalism in India’ (pp 64-87)

• M.K. GANDHI, 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings, Edited by Anthony J. Parel. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. Chapters: 'What is Swaraj' (pp 26-29); 'What is true civilization' (pp 66-71)

*Reading material is available in the short loan photocopies section of the book library, The Courtauld Institute of Art

Open to all, free admission

Organised by Emilia Terracciano with Professor Deborah Swallow (The Courtauld Institute of Art)