{"id":5322,"date":"2010-02-16T22:54:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T22:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5322"},"modified":"2010-02-18T18:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T18:57:15","slug":"talk-india-and-gaugin%e2%80%99s-tahitian-nudes-mapping-modernism-in-a-global-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5322","title":{"rendered":"TALK: India and Gaugin\u2019s Tahitian Nudes: Mapping Modernism In A Global Frame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihc.ucsb.edu\/india-and-gaugin\/\" target=\"_blank\">TALK: India and Gaugin\u2019s Tahitian Nudes: Mapping Modernism In A Global Frame<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihc.ucsb.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Interdisciplinary Humanities Center<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of California, Santa Barbara<br \/>\n3041 HSSB<br \/>\n2010-02-17 16:00 PST (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humnet.ucla.edu\/humnet\/Arthist\/faculty\/mathur.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Saloni Mathur<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Art History<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihc.ucsb.edu\/india-and-gaugin\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ihc.ucsb.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/MathurCOLOR.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This presentation will revisit the legacy of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amrita_Sher-Gil\" target=\"_blank\">Amrita Sher-Gil<\/a>, the part-Indian\/part-Hungarian painter who stands at the cosmopolitan helm of modern Indian art, by focusing on a single under-examined painting that she produced in 1934. The painting, provocatively titled \u201cSelf-Portrait as Tahitian,\u201d depicts the artist\u2019s own nude body in the romantic space of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Gauguin\" target=\"_blank\">Gauguin<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Gauguin#Tahiti.2C_Polynesia.2C_and_death\" target=\"_blank\">Tahitian nudes<\/a>. <strong>The talk will examine how Sher-Gil\u2019s mixed race heritage, her insider\/outsider status, and her sense of both distance and belonging in relation to India became a powerful driver of her short but influential artistic career.<\/strong>\u00a0 Saloni Mathur is Associate Professor of Art History at UCLA and author of <em>India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display<\/em> (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the IHC\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihc.ucsb.edu\/tag\/south-asian-religions-and-cultures-rfg\/\" target=\"_blank\">South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TALK: India and Gaugin\u2019s Tahitian Nudes: Mapping Modernism In A Global Frame Interdisciplinary Humanities Center University of California, Santa Barbara 3041 HSSB 2010-02-17 16:00 PST (Local Time) Saloni Mathur, Associate Professor of Art History University of California, Los Angeles This presentation will revisit the legacy of Amrita Sher-Gil, the part-Indian\/part-Hungarian painter who stands at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1245,13,8,20,25],"tags":[2207,2209,2208],"class_list":["post-5322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-biography","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-amrita-sher-gil","tag-interdisciplinary-humanities-center","tag-saloni-mathur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}