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South Asian and Cuban Art and Architecture (Alka Patel)
Overview
ARTstor is collaborating with Alka Patel and the University of California, Irvine to contribute approximately 14,000 images of works of South Asian and Cuban art and architecture to the Digital Library. The contribution will comprise two collections: Art and Architecture of South Asia and Art and Architecture of Cuba. The collections include Patel's fieldwork photography, focusing on the Islamic art and architectural history of South Asia from 12th to the 18th centuries, and Cuban architecture of the 18th through early 20th centuries. The University of California, Irvine will assist Patel in providing cataloging information for all the images.
Alka Patel is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches courses in South Asian and Islamic art and architecture. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University (2000) and her B.A. in Art History and Spanish Literature from Mount Holyoke College. Patel has edited several volumes, written numerous articles, and authored Building Communities in Gujarat: Architecture and Society during the Twelfth through Fourteenth Centuries (E. J. Brill, 2004). Her forthcoming projects include a monograph (The Ghurid Architecture of South Asia and Historiography at the Ends of the Islamic World), and an edited volume (The History and Historiography of Reuse in South Asia).
Collection information
| Total size of collection* | 14,000 |
|---|---|
| Percentage of completion | 0% |
* Image totals should be regarded as an approximation until a given collection is 100% complete. Users should also bear in mind that the number of images available to them may vary from country to country, reflecting ARTstor’s approach to addressing an international copyright landscape that itself varies from country to country.
Last updated: July 24, 2008