Michael Rabe (Saint Xavier University)

updated: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 15:03:44 -0500

Michael D. Rabe
Associate Professor
Saint Xavier University;
and
School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Mailing Address:
3700 W. 103rd St
Chicago, IL 60655   USA

Phone: 312-298-3088
FAX:   312-779-9061
email: rabe@sxu.edu
email: mrabe@artic.edu

description of work:

South Asian Art history, especially of Tamilnadu;
Pallava period cave-architecture

current research interests:
tantric and sexual imagery in temple architecture, esp. Khajuraho.
(See this URL:
    http://www1.shore.net/~india/ijts/issue4/index.htm#art1
for an article in the current issue of The International Journal of
Tantric Studies, Vol 2,2 (Nov. 1996), entitled "Sexual Imagery on the
*Phantasmagorical Castles* of Khajuraho");
traffic in pseudo-antiquities, i.e. fakes, especially from Mainland
Southeast Asia, Khmer and Thai.