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 in Progress by Subject, 2021

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Bellucci, Matteo, "Pietra Dura/Parchin Kari: Mediations between Florence and Mughal India" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), M. Aitken, J. Saslow)

Copplestone, Louis, "Monasteries, Mountains and Maṇḍalas:
Buddhist Architecture and Architectural Imagination in India after 750 CE" (Harvard University, J. Kim, Y. Lippit)

Kuruvilla, Tara, "Disjecta Membra: The Dispersal and Afterlife of the India Museum" (Columbia University, V. Dehejia)

Punj, Nandita, "Up in Alms, Portraits in Giving: The Shalibhadra Chaupai and Jain Art in Early Modern South Asia" (Rutgers University, S. Brett-Smith, J. Kim)

Ramachandran, Kalyani Madhura, "The Deccan Idiom of Buddhist Art in South Asia (1st–4th century CE)" (Columbia University, V. Dehejia)

Sikand, Ananya, "Muslim Unbelonging: Conceptual and Performance Art in Post-Independence South Asia (1970–2020)" (University of Washington, N. Di Pietrantonio, A. Rounthwaite)

Sud, Shivani, "Painting, Print, and Photography: World-Making in Jaipur, ca. 1780–1920" (University of California, Berkeley, S. Ray)

Varanese, Sara, "Ekamra Tirtha: Urban Landscape and Ecology in a Premodern Pilgrimage Centre" (Rutgers University, T. Sears)