by Jon Lackman | 4 February 2007 | Contemporary
On February 13, UCLA professor Saloni Mathur will present a lecture, “The Politics of Oil: Contemporary Indian Art and the War in Iraq”: “This paper juxtaposes several different uses and politics of ‘oil’ – as a painterly medium, a global commodity, and a discourse of imperial power – in part by examining the history of oil painting in India as part of the structures and operations of British imperialism in the subcontinent.”
