Partha Mitter
Emeritus Professor, History of Art, University of Sussex

Selection of Other Work

2013
“Monuments and Memory for Our Times”, South Asian Studies, Vol.29, No.1, 159-167.
2012
“Greece, India and Race Among the Victorians”, in African Athena: New Agendas, eds. Daniel Orrells et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 56-70.
“Frameworks for Considering Cultural Exchange: The Case of India and America”, in East-West Interchanges in American Art: A Long and Tumultuous Relationship,  eds. Cynthia Mills et al. (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2012), 20-37.
2011
“Postcolonial Monsters: A Conversation with Partha Mitter” in Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous, eds. Asa Mittman & Peter Dendle (London: Ashgate, 2011), 327-339.
“Per Ardua ad Astra: Sohan Qadri’s Life and Work”, in Sohan Qadri: the Seer (Milan: Sundaram Tagore Gallery and Skira, 2011), 11-25.
2010
“Bauhaus in Kalkutta”, in Bauhaus Global: Gesammelte Beiträge der Konferenz Bauhaus Global, ed. Annemarie Jaeggi (Bauhaus- Archiv, Berlin Gebr.Mann Verlag 2010), 149-158.
“Assessments Section”, in Art and Globalization, eds. James Elkins et al. (Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania University Press, 2010), 222-225.
“Questions of Style”, Artforum International, XLIX, No.1 (September 2010), 261-262.
2008
“Decentering Modernism: Art History and Avant-Garde Art from the Periphery”, Art Bulletin, Vol. XC, No.1 (December 2008), 531-574. (Pages refer to my lead essay, four responses and my concluding reply.)
“History, Memory and Anish Kapoor”, in Anish Kapoor Past Present and Future, ed. Nicholas Baume (Catalogue of exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 30 May-7 Sept. 2008), Boston, 2008, 105-118.
2005
“Reflections on Modern Art and National Identity in India: An Interview”, ed. Kobena Mercer, MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass), 25-49.
2003
"Mechanical reproduction and the world of the colonial artist", Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.) 36, 1&2, 1-32, reprinted in the book, Beyond Appearances, Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India, Sage, Delhi, 2003.
2000
"The Hottentot Venus and Western Man", in Cultural Encounters: Representing Otherness, eds. E. Hallam & B. V. Street, Routledge, London, 35-50.
1999
Response to V. S. Ramachandran & W. Hirstein's paper, "The Science of Art: A Neurological theory of aesthetic experience", Journal of Consciousness Studies: controversies in science and the humanities, vol.6 (June-July, 1999), Art and the Brain Number, pp 64-5. (The response is part of the debate prompted by Ramachandran and Hirstein paper.)
1998
"The Imperial Collections: Indian Art", in A Grand Design, the Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum, eds. Malcolm Baker & Brenda Richardson, Catalogue of the exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Harry N Abrams, New York, Oct 97-Jan 98, 222-229.
1996
"Primitivism" in Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, eds. D. Levinson & M. Ember, vol. 3(M-R), New York, 1029-32.
1994
"'Decadence in India'; Reflections on a much-used word in studies of Indian art", in Sight and Insight; Essays in honour of E. H. Gombrich at 85, ed. J. Onians, Phaidon Press, 379-397.
1991
Satvajit Ray at 70, preface by H Cartier‑Bresson, Eiffel Editions, Brussels, 108‑9.
1988
“Rammohun Roy et le nouveau langage du monothéisme”, L’Impensable polythéisme, ed. F Schmidt, Edition d’archive contemporain, Paris, 257‑29.
1987
“Can we ever understand alien cultures? Some epistemological concerns relating to the perception and understanding of the ‘other’”, Comparative Criticism, ed. E S Shaffer, Vol 9, Cambridge University Press, 3‑34.
“Rammohun Roy and the New Language of Monotheism”, History and Anthropology, III, 177‑208.
1986
“The Early British Port Cities of India: their Planning and Architecture, Circa 1640‑1757”, Journal of Society of Architectural Historians, XLV, 2 June 1986, 96‑144.
1983
“The Aryan Myth and British Writers on Indian Art and Culture”, in Literature and Imperialism, ed. B Moore‑Gilbert, London, 69‑92.
1982
Photography in India, Catalogue of Exhibition held in Photographers’ Gallery, London.
1973
“Western Bias in the Study of South Indian Aesthetics”, South Asian Review, VI, 2 January 1973, 125‑136.
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