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'''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).<ref name=UCLA>{{cite web |title=Saloni Mathur |url=https://arthistory.ucla.edu/person/saloni-mathur/ |website=Art History |publisher=University of California |access-date=23 November 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cooke Jr. |first1=Edward|title=Book ReviewsSaloni Mathur. India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display |journal=Winterthur Portfolio |date=December 2009 |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=407–408 |doi=10.1086/649062 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/649062 |language=en |issn=0084-0416|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kriegel |first1=Lara |title=Saloni Mathur . India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display|journal=The American Historical Review |date=February 2010 |volume=115 |issue=1 |pages=193–194 |doi=10.1086/ahr.115.1.193 |url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/115/1/193/15912|url-access=subscription }}</ref> 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]]''.<ref name=Zahra2022>{{cite web |last1=Zahra |first1=Orin |title=Amrita Sher-Gil, Self-Portrait as a Tahitian |url=https://smarthistory.org/amrita-sher-gil-self-portrait-tahitian/ |publisher=The Centre for Public Art History |access-date=11 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111070752/https://smarthistory.org/amrita-sher-gil-self-portrait-tahitian/ |archive-date=11 November 2023 |date=8 September 2022}}</ref>

==Selected publications==
===Books===
*{{cite book |last1=Mathur |first1=Saloni|title=India by design: colonial history and cultural display |date=2007 |publisher=University of California press |location=Berkeley |isbn=978-0520234178}}
*{{cite book |last1=Mathur |first1=Saloni |title=The migrant's time: rethinking art history and diaspora |date=2011 |publisher=Sterling and Francine Clark art institute, distributed by Yale university press |location=Williamstown (Mass.) New Haven [Conn.] London |isbn=978-0300134148}}
*{{cite book |last1=Mathur |first1=Saloni |last2=Kwon |first2=Miwon |title=Making Strange: Gagawaka + Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram |publisher=University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History |isbn=978-0984755097}}
*{{cite book |last1=Mathur |first1=Saloni |last2=Singh |first2=Kavita |title=No touching, no spitting, no praying: the museum in South Asia |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |location=New Delhi [Inde] |isbn=9781138796010 |url=https://www.routledge.com/No-Touching-No-Spitting-No-Praying-The-Museum-in-South-Asia/Mathur-Singh/p/book/9780815373247 |language=en}}
*{{cite book |last1=Mathur |first1=Saloni |title=A fragile inheritance: radical stakes in contemporary Indian art |date=2019 |publisher=Duke university press |location=Durham |isbn=9781478001867}}

===Articles===
*{{cite journal |last1=Mathur |first1=Saloni |title=A Retake of Sher-Gil's Self-Portrait as Tahitian |journal=Critical Inquiry |date=2011 |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=515–544 |doi=10.1086/659356 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/659356 |issn=0093-1896|url-access=subscription }}

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