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Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of
Indian and South Asian Art
Director of Undergraduate Studies
South Asian art
Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1967
In the course of her career, Vidya Dehejia has combined research with teaching and exhibition-related activities around the world. Extensive field travel in South Asia, with visits to sites of importance in Southeast Asia, has given her first hand familiarity with the art of the region. Her background in classical Sanskrit and Tamil, and knowledge of a range of modern Indian languages has proved invaluable. Her writings have incorporated translations of ancient poetry, and material from unpublished manuscripts, in order to illuminate an artistic milieu. She has explored at length the theoretical basis for the portrayal of visual narratives in the context of India’s sculpture and painting, and has examined issues of gender and colonialism. Over time, her work has ranged from Buddhist art of the centuries BC to the esoteric temples of North India, and from the sacred bronzes of the South to the art of British India. Management and curatorial experience at the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries provided broader scope to convey the excitement of her field to non-specialist audiences.
910 Schermerhorn Hall
Telephone: (212) 854-5691
E-mail: vd2@columbia.edu Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11-1
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The Body Adorned: Dissolving Boundaries between Sacred and Profane in India’s Art, New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj, Ahmedabad: Mapin Publications, 2008.
Dehejia, Vidya. Chola. Sacred Bronzes of Southern India. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2006. Catalogue essay “Beauty and the Body of God,” and all Catalogue entries.
Dehejia, Vidya. The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India, New York: The American Federation of Arts, 2002.
Dehejia, Vidya. India
through the Lens: Photography 1840–1911,
Washington D.C., Ahmedabad, Cologne: Freer Gallery of
Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Mapin Publishing,
Prestel Verlag, 2000.
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Dehejia, Vidya. Devi, The Great Goddess: Female
Divinity in South Asian Art, Washington D.C., Ahmedabad,
Cologne: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Mapin Publishing,
Prestel Verlag, 1999.
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Dehejia, Vidya. Love in Asian Art and Culture (Asian
Art and Culture Unnumbered), Sackler Art Gallery,
1999.
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Dehejia, Vidya. Indian Art. Art and Ideas,
London: Phaidon, 1997, 1998, 2000. French, German, and
Japanese versions forthcoming.
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Dehejia, Vidya (Editor). The Legend of Rama: Artistic
Visions, Marg Publications, 1994.
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