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Hans Feurer - Pentax Calendar, 1978 (Photographis '79)

Marcellus Williams. Say his name

As the first Indian to receive art training in Paris, where she attended the École des Beaux-Arts from 1929 to 1932, the biracial, bicultural, and bisexual Sher-Gil, described recently by Time as “shockingly modern”… Self-Portrait as Tahitian has scarcely been mentioned in the growing literature that confirms Sher-Gil’s canonical status in modern Indian art, but the painting speaks in powerful ways to a number of contemporary intellectual concerns: the profound and intractable global entanglements of modernism, the cross-cultural currents of the early twentieth century, the place of primitivism and Orientalism within the discourses of the modern, the avant-garde’s treatment of the female nude, and the bravado of the young woman who offered the statement while studying in Paris at the age of twenty-one.–Saloni Mathur (x)

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