Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

South Asia/South East Asia
Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2017

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Becherini, Marta, “Staging the Foreign: Niccolò Manucci (1638-ca. 1720) and Early Modern European Collections of Indian Paintings” (Columbia University, V. Dehejia)

Bissonauth, Natasha, “Play at the Turn of the Millennium: Reframing South Asian Diasporic Art (1980s - present)” (Cornell University, I. Dadi)

Hartana, Sutrisno, “Origins, Journeys, Encounters: A Cultural Analysis of Wayang Performances in North America” (University of Victoria, A. Wright)

Lin, Su-Chi, “Art for Mission: Christian Visual Culture in Contemporary Taiwan” (Graduate Theological Union, E. Fernandez, SJ)

Masteller, Kimberly, “Temple Construction, Iconography, and Royal Identity In the Eastern Kalacuri Dynasty” (The Ohio State University, S. Huntington)

Mumtaz, Murad, “Objects of Devotion: Representations of Muslim Saints in Early Modern South Asian Painting, 1500-1700” (University of Virginia, D. Ehnbom)

Stein, Emma Natalya, “All Streets Lead to Temples: Mapping Monumental Histories in Kanchipuram, ca. 8th - 12th Centuries CE” (Yale University, T. Barringer, T. Sears)