Asie du Sud

États-Unis d'Amérique

Professor, History of Art & South/Southeast Asian Studies

UC Berkeley

prusty@berkeley.edu

University of California, Berkeley
416 Doe Library, U.C. Berkeley #6020
Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

phones: 510-642-4353 (office)
510-548-0939 (residence)
fax: 510-643-2185

India

Discipline: Art History
Past (and continuing) research:
Art of Gupta India, 4-6th century
Illustrations of the Ramayana in Orissa
(palm-leaf and pata chittra),18-20th c.

Current interests: sculptural practice in producing images,focus Orissa;
interaction between artisans & authority (religious, political);
ascription of meaning and value to images;
conntinuum between "folk art" & elite imagery,focus Mewar

Arts of South & Southeast Asia

None on file.

art ; Gupta ; Ramayana ; Orissa ; sculpture ; image ; ...