In this episode, we hear once again from our friends at Dead Ladies NYC. Nafisa Ferdous presents Amrita Sher-Gil, a queer, feminist, Hungarian-Indian artist, writer, and art critic who left a profound impact on art despite her untimely death. Sher-Gil was an incredibly charismatic non-conformist whose work reframed discussions on art and feminism, orientalism, and colonialism, while merging European technique and classical Indian aesthetics into something new. DLS co-founder Katy Derbyshire joins producer/host Susan Stone to introduce the story.
Also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, and Acast. You can download the transcript, created by Susan Stone, here.
Show notes:
Early self-portraits by Amrita Sher-Gil
Topless on a beach
Those bourgeois parents, Marie-Antoinette and Umrao
Young Amrita sketching, as always
Eighteen in Paris
Award-winning painting Young Girls
Self-portrait as a Tahitian
Amrita back in Shimla
Later works
What an icon!
Amrita Sher-Gil by Nafisa Ferdous. Our presenter Nafisa is is a talented illustrator who often draws Dead Ladies! Find her art here: https://www.nafisaferdous.com/ and here: https://www.instagram.com/__petni/
There are a couple of biographies out there; Nafisa worked with this one, by Yashodhara Dalmia.
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