Partha Mitter

University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

September–June 2004

Partha Mitter is research professor of history of art at the University of Sussex at Brighton. He is author of Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art (Clarendon Press, 1977); Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations (Cambridge University Press, 1994); and Indian Art (Oxford University Press, 2002). At the Clark, Mitter will complete his monograph Modernity, Art, and Nationalism in India 1922-1947, a project culminating five years of research to address global modernism, colonial ideology, art historical canons, and the construction of identity by non-western nations with particular reference to India.