Technical Report: Michael Meister (Works on Hindu Temple Architecture)

Collection by Michael W. Meister
 

The W. Norman Brown Professor of South Asia Studies in the History of Art Department Michael W. Meister, is a specialist in the art of India and Pakistan. His research focuses on temple architecture, the morphology of meaning, and other aspects of the art of the Indian sub-continent. Curriculam Vitae, research news and events.
 

.   + Coverage: South Asia… + Categorisation: Research Abstracts and Texts (primary)… + Keywords: Archaeology… Curriculum… Hindu Temple Architecture…

 

Courseworks and Research Papers available online include...

• Cooking for the Gods, Newark Museum Exhibition
• Documentation of Salt Range Temples, Pakistan
• Pilgrimage Temples in Rajasthan:
  The J. Paul Getty Foundation Interpretive Research project, "Continuities of Community Patronage," undertaken with John Cort and L. A. Babb, and the thematic seminar sponsored by the Center for the Advanced Study of India have led to an edited volume, Ethnography and Personhood: Notes From the Field (Jaipur 2000).
  • Essays from the thematic seminar by Richard Davis, Anne Feldhaus and Ann Grodzins Gold remain available on-line, as is a preliminary report on results of the Getty project, "Self-Preservation and the Life of Temples."
• Text and illustrations for Man and Man-Lion: The Philadelphia Narasimha (Artibus Asiae 56 [1996.3]: 291-301).
• Selected slide images for a Madison conference lecture by Professor Meister on Cosmos in a Teacup, with text attached.
• Self Preservation and the Life of Temples, presented at the ACSAA symposium, Charleston, S.C., provides a preliminary report on the Continuities of Community Patronage project.
• Temples Along the Indus, Expedition, 38.3 (1996): 41-54. (Also an earlier typescript).
• Louis Renou's "The Vedic House", Res, Anthropology and Aesthetics 34 (1998): 143-61. (In this format this lacks its Endnotes.)

Courseworks (sorted by date)

• Spring 2003
  • ARTH 512 (SARS 511), Proseminar in Indian Art: Symbolic Architecture, The Indian Temple
• 2002
  • Arth 104 (SARS 201/SARS501), Introduction to Art in South Asia
  • Arth 599, Research Seminar, South Asia Art Archive
• 2001
  • Arth 301-301, The Icon as Art and for Worship
  • Arth 711/SARS 603, Temple Arts of South India
• 2000
  • Arth 212, Cities and Temples in Ancient India
  • Arth 514, Aspects of Indian Art: Workshop in Indian Architecture
• 1999
  • Arth 212, Cities and Temples in Ancient India
  • Arth 301, Living Monuments: India
  • Arth 711, Creation of an Iconic Sculpture
  • Arth 711, Seminar in Indian Art: Sculpture
• 1998
  • Arth 104, Introduction to Asian Art: South and Southeast Asia
  • Arth 515, Proseminar in Indian Architecture
• Previous Semesters
  • Arth 009, Writing About Asian Art
  • Arth 104, Introduction to Asian Art: South and Southeast Asia (1996)
  500-level Undergraduate/Graduate Proseminars (topics vary from year to year):
  • Ethnography and Art History
  • Readings in the History of Indian Art History
  • Workshop in Indian Architecture
  700-level Graduate Seminars (topics vary from year to year):
  • Art In and Out of Ritual Context
  • Regional Varieties of North Indian Architecture

 

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