Symposium: Across the South of Asia
Throughout this 3-day symposium, prominent scholars from across the globe will present illustrated lectures on south and southeast Asian art in honor of their mentor and colleague, Robert L. Brown, Curator of Southeast Asian Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art, UCLA.
Saturday Schedule:
9:00 AM Coffee and Pastries
9:30 AM to 5:00 PM Presentations
Welcome and Introduction
Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, George P. Bickford Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art, Cleveland Museum of Art
The Movement of Buddhist 11th- and 12th-Century Portable Metal Imagery Between India and Tibet
Kurt Behrendt, Assistant Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Brocaded Buddhas
Melody N. Rod-ari, Assistant Curator, Norton Simon Museum of Art
Images and Image Installation Rituals in Chinese Esoteric Buddhism
Koichi Shinohara, Professor, Yale University
Dvaravati Wheels of Law: Reflections on Cakra, Surya, and the Buddha
M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati, Associate Professor, California State University, Sacramento
Land of Spirits: Re-reading the Dieng Plateau, Central Java (Indonesia)
Bokyung Kim, Assistant Professor, Whitman College
A Pivotal Sixth Century in Southeast Asian Art History?
Paul Lavy, Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Deccan Echoes in Painting under Raja Bir Singh Dev Bundela of Orchha (r.1605-1627)
Edward Leland Rothfarb, Independent Scholar
Portraits of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb: Questions of Patronage and Mughal Decline
Tushara Bindu Gude, Associate Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
More Faqir, Less Fanatic: Another Look at Aurangzeb's Architectural Program
Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, Associate Professor, San Francisco State University
Home and Harem?India?s New Woman: Cosmopolitan, Feminist, and Fashionable
Gianna M. Carotenuto, Independent Scholar
Circuits of Exchange: Muraqqas and Illustrated Gift Books in the Early 20th Century
Saleema Waraich, Assistant Professor, Skidmore College
Kutch Silver: A Study of Stylistic Sources
Stephen Markel, Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Admission/Cost: 1-Day ticket: $15 members, students, military, seniors/$22.50 nonmembers
Location:
San Diego Museum of Art
1450 El Prado
San Diego, 92101
Dates and times:
Friday, January 18 - 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Satuday, January 19 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Sunday, January 20 - 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM
For more information, please visit: www.sdmart.org
Throughout this 3-day symposium, prominent scholars from across the globe will present illustrated lectures on south and southeast Asian art in honor of their mentor and colleague, Robert L. Brown, Curator of Southeast Asian Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art, UCLA.
Saturday Schedule:
9:00 AM Coffee and Pastries
9:30 AM to 5:00 PM Presentations
Welcome and Introduction
Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, George P. Bickford Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art, Cleveland Museum of Art
The Movement of Buddhist 11th- and 12th-Century Portable Metal Imagery Between India and Tibet
Kurt Behrendt, Assistant Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Brocaded Buddhas
Melody N. Rod-ari, Assistant Curator, Norton Simon Museum of Art
Images and Image Installation Rituals in Chinese Esoteric Buddhism
Koichi Shinohara, Professor, Yale University
Dvaravati Wheels of Law: Reflections on Cakra, Surya, and the Buddha
M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati, Associate Professor, California State University, Sacramento
Land of Spirits: Re-reading the Dieng Plateau, Central Java (Indonesia)
Bokyung Kim, Assistant Professor, Whitman College
A Pivotal Sixth Century in Southeast Asian Art History?
Paul Lavy, Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Deccan Echoes in Painting under Raja Bir Singh Dev Bundela of Orchha (r.1605-1627)
Edward Leland Rothfarb, Independent Scholar
Portraits of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb: Questions of Patronage and Mughal Decline
Tushara Bindu Gude, Associate Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
More Faqir, Less Fanatic: Another Look at Aurangzeb's Architectural Program
Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, Associate Professor, San Francisco State University
Home and Harem?India?s New Woman: Cosmopolitan, Feminist, and Fashionable
Gianna M. Carotenuto, Independent Scholar
Circuits of Exchange: Muraqqas and Illustrated Gift Books in the Early 20th Century
Saleema Waraich, Assistant Professor, Skidmore College
Kutch Silver: A Study of Stylistic Sources
Stephen Markel, Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Admission/Cost: 1-Day ticket: $15 members, students, military, seniors/$22.50 nonmembers
Location:
San Diego Museum of Art
1450 El Prado
San Diego, 92101
Dates and times:
Friday, January 18 - 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Satuday, January 19 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Sunday, January 20 - 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM
For more information, please visit: www.sdmart.org
