Partha Mitter

Partha Mitter is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Sussex. He is a writer and historian of art and culture, specialising 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. His many publications include Much Maligned Monsters: History of European Reactions to Indian Art; Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations; Indian Art (Oxford Art History Series); and The Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant-Garde – 1922-1947.