Partha Mitter, the author of Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art (Clarendon Press, 1977); Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations (Cambridge University Press, 1994); and Indian Art (Oxford University Press, 2002). At the Clark, Mitter will completes his monograph Modernity, Art, and Nationalism in India 1922-1947, a project culminating five years of research to address global modernism, colonial ideology, art historical canons, and the construction of identity by non-western nations with particular reference to India. Mitter will be signing his newest book, The Triumph of Modernism at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery of New York on Tuesday, March 24 and at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery of Beverly Hills on Sunday, March 29.