Saloni Mathur is professor of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art, the head of the department of art history at the University of California, USA, and author of India by Design (2007).[1][2][3] Her paper "A Retake of Sher-Gil's Self-Portrait as Tahitian" (2011), analyses the influences of Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Japonisme, on Hungarian-born Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil's painting titled Self-Portrait as a Tahitian.[4]

Saloni Mathur

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  • Mathur, Saloni (2007). India by design: colonial history and cultural display. Berkeley: University of California press. ISBN 978-0520234178.
  • Mathur, Saloni (2011). The migrant's time: rethinking art history and diaspora. Williamstown (Mass.) New Haven [Conn.] London: Sterling and Francine Clark art institute, distributed by Yale university press. ISBN 978-0300134148.
  • Mathur, Saloni; Kwon, Miwon. Making Strange: Gagawaka + Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram. University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History. ISBN 978-0984755097.
  • Mathur, Saloni; Singh, Kavita (2015). No touching, no spitting, no praying: the museum in South Asia. New Delhi [Inde]: Routledge. ISBN 9781138796010.
  • Mathur, Saloni (2019). A fragile inheritance: radical stakes in contemporary Indian art. Durham: Duke university press. ISBN 9781478001867.

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References edit

  1. ^ "Saloni Mathur". Art History. University of California. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  2. ^ Cooke Jr., Edward (December 2009). "Book ReviewsSaloni Mathur. India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display". Winterthur Portfolio. 43 (4): 407–408. doi:10.1086/649062. ISSN 0084-0416.
  3. ^ Kriegel, Lara (February 2010). "Saloni Mathur . India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display". The American Historical Review. 115 (1): 193–194. doi:10.1086/ahr.115.1.193.
  4. ^ Zahra, Orin (8 September 2022). "Amrita Sher-Gil, Self-Portrait as a Tahitian". The Centre for Public Art History. Archived from the original on 11 November 2023. Retrieved 11 November 2023.