Joanna G. Williams

Domaine de recherche

Asie du Sud

Pays de résidence

États-Unis d'Amérique

Titre

Professor, History of Art & South/Southeast Asian Studies

Affiliation

UC Berkeley

Adresse électronique

prusty@berkeley.edu

Adresse

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

Téléphone/Télécopie

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

Pays de spécialisation

India

Recherche

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

Enseignement

Arts of South & Southeast Asia

Publications

None on file.

Mots-clés

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