Anuradhapura Museum, Sri Lanka

Digitization of this collection has been possible with financial support from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. 

Conveyance Arts in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan: Cycle rickshaws, baby taxis, temps, and trucks. Joanna Kirkpatrick, Cultural Anthropologist, PhD U.C. Berkeley, USA, did research in India and Bangladesh. Last 30 years at work researching Bangladeshi ricksha arts and allied conveyance arts, such as trucks, boats, other vehicles -- comparing them across cultures. Published scholarly and popular articles on ricksha art. "All artwork is 20th c. Materials were acrylic or oil paints on recycled metal sheets, often printer discards. In the 1980s to 90s printed “filmi” posters were being pasted on rickshaw backboards. Country and city name is given where known. Sites of photos were main roads in Dhaka or from mistri shops in Bongshaal Rd., Dhaka. In Chittagong, photos of rickshaw art were shot on main streets and in the then poster artist and mistri street in Chittagong. Rajshahi photos were from main streets (names unknown to me), and also from one artistshop, Robu Art (this is specified in the text); Pabna images were photographed on main streets by a Pabna journalist (his site recorded but now sold off, see gallery for Pabna), used with permission. India truck photos were from Kerala State, permission of photographer Kathryn Myers. No other metadata was recorded." Joanna Kirkpatrick

Dancing figures in Indian Art

Frederick M. Asher was a specialist in South Asian art. His research considers the architecture of contested religious space and the issue of copying/originality in Indian art. His scholarship focused on issues related to art as commodity, particularly looking at patterns of trade as they relate to works of art in India, and the site of Bodh Gaya. He also examined present-day artists working in traditional modes both because they are interesting in themselves and because they offer models for pre-modern modes of artistic production; they further offer the opportunity to think about the role of the artist in art history that has focused primarily on the product. He was Editor-in-Chief of caa.reviews, the electronic journal of the College Art Association, President and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute of Indian Studies. He was also President of the National Committee for the History of Art, and South Asia editor for Archives of Asian Art.

Digitization of this collection has been possible with financial support from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.