Saloni Mathur Explained

Saloni Mathur

Saloni Mathur is professor of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art, the head of the department of art history at the University of California, Los Angeles, 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]

Selected publications

Books

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

Articles

• Mathur . Saloni . A Retake of Sher-Gil's Self-Portrait as Tahitian . Critical Inquiry . 2011 . 37 . 3 . 515–544 . 10.1086/659356 . 0093-1896.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Saloni Mathur . Art History . University of California . 23 November 2023 . en.
2. Cooke Jr. . Edward. Book ReviewsSaloni Mathur. India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display . Winterthur Portfolio . December 2009 . 43 . 4 . 407–408 . 10.1086/649062 . en . 0084-0416.
3. Kriegel . Lara . Saloni Mathur . India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display. The American Historical Review . February 2010 . 115 . 1 . 193–194 . 10.1086/ahr.115.1.193 .
4. Web site: Zahra . Orin . Amrita Sher-Gil, Self-Portrait as a Tahitian . The Centre for Public Art History . 11 November 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231111070752/https://smarthistory.org/amrita-sher-gil-self-portrait-tahitian/ . 11 November 2023 . 8 September 2022.