Michael Meister: The Measure of Monuments
Monday 16 November, 2015
4 - 5:30pm, $0
Columbia University, Knox Hall
606 West 122 Street, Room 208
"The Measure of Monuments" A talk by Michael W. Meister (Pennsylvania) Michael W. Meister is W. Norman Brown Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as Chair of the Departments of South Asia Studies, and History of Art and Director of Penn's South Asia Center. He is Curator of Indian Art, Asian section, University Museum, and Curator of the South Asia Art Archive. Meister is a specialist in the art of India and Pakistan, and his research and writing focuses on temple architecture, the morphology of meaning, and other aspects of the art of the Indian sub-continent. His most recent book is Temples of the Indus Studies in the Hindu Architecture of Ancient Pakistan (2010).