chandreyi basu
Dr. Chandreyi Basu
Dr. Chandreyi Basu
Associate Professor of Art History
B.A., Loreto; M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
courses taught:
Arts of South Asia
Buddhist Art and Ritual
Taj Mahal as Art & Icon
Gender & Visual Arts in Asia
Survey of Art I (Prehistory to Medieval: Europe, Middle East, North Africa)
BIO: Dr. Basu’s interests lie in researching issues of art patronage and cross-cultural interaction in ancient Indian art. She focuses on the northwestern part of the Indian sub-continent (north India, northern Pakistan, and southern Afghanistan) during the 1st three centuries AD and on early Buddhist art. She is the author of Displaying Many Faces: Art and Gandharan Identity (2004), a catalogue of a private collection of art from ancient Pakistan. Her courses about Asian art and the arts of the ancient Mediterranean world help students to understand how the visual arts are/were produced, viewed, and used in diverse historical and cultural contexts. She is a member of the Asian Studies Program and coordinates the university’s semester-in-India program.
