Michael Meister (University of Pennsylvania)

submitted: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 17:38:08 -0400 (EDT)

Michael W. Meister
Professor and Chair
History of Art Department
Jaffe History of Art Building
3405 Woodland Walk
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104   USA

Phones: 215-898-8375 (office)
        215-546-3630 (residence)
FAX:    215-573-2210
email:  mmeister@mail.sas.upenn.edu
URL:    http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/arth/meister/mmeister.html

Description of work:

My research has focused on the symbolic, morphological, and iconological
structures of early Indian architecture, the temple, and of the buildings
of early Islam in South Asia.  I teach all of the art of South Asia and
have written on sculpture, iconography, and ethnography as well as
architecture.  I also recently organised an exhibition and catalogue
entitled "Cooking for the Gods:  The Art of Home Ritual in Bengal" for the
Newark Museum.  I currently am doing field research in western India
(particularly Gujarat and Rajasthan) and also on temples along the Indus
River in the Panjab and North West Frontier Provinces of Pakistan.