Robert L. Brown

Professor of Art History
UCLA
405 Hilgard Avenue
100 Dodd Hall
Los Angeles CA 90095-1417
rlbrown@humnet.ucla.edu

(above: dust jacket to Ganesh: Studies of an Asian God, ed. Robert L. Brown)

(at right: dust jacket to The Dvaravati Wheels of the Law and the Indianization of Southeast Asia, Robert L. Brown)

Publications and Papers

Exhibition Catalog

Light of Asia: Buddha Sakyamuni in Asian Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (with Pratapaditya Pal, et al.). (essay on Southeast Asian art and all Southeast Asian catalog entries.)

Edited Book

Ganesh: Studies of an Asian God. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. (with introductory essay)

Book

The Dvaravati Wheels of the Law and the Indianization of South East Asia. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.
Living a Life in Accord with Dhamma: Papers in Honor of Professor Jean Boisselier. Bangkok: Silpakorn University, 1997 (ed. with Natasha Eilenberg and M. C. Subhadradis Diskul).
Art from Thailand. Bombay: Marg, 1999 (with introductory essay).

Text Book Chapters:

Gardner's Art through the Ages. Eleventh Edition. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 2000. (Chapters 6 & 25)

Research Articles

"The Four Stone Facades of Monastery I at Ratnagiri," Artibus Asiae XL, No. 1 (1978):5-28.
"Stone Buddha Images on Stelae from Ratnagiri," Journal of Asian Culture II (Spring, 1978):103-113.
"Indra's Heaven: A Dharmacakrastambha Socle in the Bangkok National Museum," Ars Orientalis 14 (1984):115-130.
"The Sravasti Miracles in the Art of India and Dvaravati," Archives of Asian Art 37 (1984):79-95.
"Light of Asia: Buddha Sakyamuni in Asian Art." Arts of Asia, (January-February 1984):69-80.
"The Art of Southeast Asia: Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art," Arts of Asia (Nov.-Dec. 1985):114-125.
"Recent Stupa Literature: A Review Article," Journal of Asian History 20, no. 2 (1986):215-232.
"Note on the Recently Discovered Ganesa Image from Palembang, Sumatra," Indonesia, No. 43 (April 1987):95-100.
"Female Imagery in Ancient Khmer Sculpture," in Apsara: The Feminine in Khmer Art, ed. Amy Catlin (Los Angeles: the Woman's Building, 1987):6-10.
"John D. Rockefeller 3rd" in American Collectors of Asian Art, ed. P. Pal (Bombay: Marg Publications, 1987).
"Bodhgaya and Southeast Asia," in Bodhgaya: The Site of Enlightenment ed. Janice Leoshko (Bombay: Marg Publications, 1988):101-124.
"The Pong Tuk Lamp: A Reconsideration," Journal of the Siam Society 77, part 2 (1989):9-20. (with Anna M. Macdonnell).
"God on Earth: The Walking Buddha in the Art of South and Southeast Asia," Artibus Asiae 50, 1/2 (1990):73-107.
"A Lajja Gauri in a Buddhist Context at Aurangabad." The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 13, no. 2 (1990):1-16.
"Ganesa in Southeast Asian Art: Indian Connections and Indigenous Developments" (in Ganesh: Studies of an Asian God, ed. Robert L. Brown, 1991). (pp. 171-234)
"Indian Art Transformed: the Earliest Sculptural Styles of Southeast Asia," in Panels of the VIIth World Sanskrit Conference (Leiden: Brill, 1992):40-53.
"Rules for Change in the Transfer of Indian Art to Southeast Asia." In Ancient Indonesian Sculpture. Eds. Marijke J. Klokke and Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1994.
"Images of Ganesha from Southeast Asia." In Ganesha, ed. Pratapaditya Pal. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1995.
"Three Southeast Asian Sculptures in the Pacific Asia Museum Collection." In Studies & Reflections on Asian Art History and Archaeology: Essays in Honour of H. S. H. Professor Subhadradis Diskul. Bangkok: Silpakorn University, 1995.
"The Emaciated Gandharan Buddha Images: Asceticism, Health, and the Body," in Living a Life in Accord with Dhamma: Papers in Honor of Professor Jean Boisselier, eds. Eilenberg, Diskul, and Brown. (Bangkok: Silpakorn University, 1997).
"Narrative as Icon: The Jataka Stories in Ancient Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture," in Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia, ed. Juliane Schober (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997).
"Expected Miracles: The Unsurprisingly Miraculous Nature of Images and Relics." In Images, Miracles, and Authority in Asian Religious Traditions. Ed. Richard Davis. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998.
"The Miraculous Buddha Images: Portrait, God, or Object?" In Images, Miracles, and Authority in Asian Religious Traditions. Ed. Richard Davis. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998.
"Dvaravati Sculpture." Taasa Review: The Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia 7, no. 4 (1998):9-11.
"Some Remarkable Cham Sculptures in American Museums." Lettre de la Societe des Amis du Champa Ancien no. 6 (Decembre 1999) (with Natasha Eilenberg).

Reviews

Review of R. P. Mohapatra, Udayagiri & Khandagiri Caves, in The Journal of Asian Studies, 42, No. 1 (November 1982):193-194.
Review of Barbara Stoler Miller, _Exploring India's Sacred Art: Selected Writings of Stella Kramrisch in Journal of Asian History,18, No. 1 (1984):90-91.
Review of Carmel Berkson, Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, and George Michell, _Elephanta: the Cave of Shiva in Journal of Asian History, 19 (1985):71-72.
Review of A. K. Narain, ed., _Studies in Buddhist Art of South Asia in The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 11 no. 1 (1988):175-179.
Review of Carmel Berkson, The Caves at Aurangabad: Early Buddhist Tantric Art in India in Journal of Asian History 22, no. 1 (1988):79-80.
Review of J. C. Harle and Andrew Topsfield, Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum in Journal of Asian History 22, no. 2 (1989):197-198.
Review of Jean Boisselier, Trends in Khmer Art (ed. Natasha Eilenberg; trans. Natasha Eilenberg and Melvin Elliott) in Journal of Asian Studies 49, no. 3 (1990):692-693.
Review of Henry Ginsburg, Thai Manuscript Painting in Journal of Asian Culture 14 (1990):90-92.
Review of Stella Snead, with texts by Wendy Doniger and George Michell, Animals in Four Worlds: Sculptures from India in Journal of Asian History 25, no. 1 (1991):82-83.
Review of Richard M. Cooler, _Karen Drums of Burma: Types, Iconography, Manufacture and Use in The Journal of Asian Studies 54, no. 4 (1995):1150-1151.
Margaret H. Case, Heinrich Zimmer: Coming into His Own in Journal of the American Oriental Society 115.3 (1995): 502-503.
Edi Sedyawati, Ganesa Statuary of the Kadiri and Singhasari Period: A Study of Art History in Journal of the American Oriental Society 116.2 (1996): 340-341.
Rita Ringis, Elephants of Thailand in Myth, Art and Religion in The Journal of Asian Studies 56, no. 4 (1997):1173-1175.
Marijke J. Klokke, Tantri Reliefs of Javanese Candi in Journal of the American Oriental Society 118.1 (1998):134-135.
Robert Knox, Amaravati: Buddhist Sculpture from the Great Stupa and of Elizabeth Rosen Stone, The Buddhist Art of Nagarjunakonda, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 118.2 (1998):303-305.
Masahide Mori and Yoshiko Mori, The Devimahatmya Paintings Preserved in the National Archives, Kathmandu, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 119.1 (1999):191-192.
R. Soekmono, The Javanese Candi: Function and Meaning, in The Journal Asian Studies 58, no. 1 (1999):262-264.
Cynthia Packert Atherton, The Sculpture of Early Medieval Rajasthan, in The Journal of the American Oriental Soceity 118.2 (1999):
W. Zwalf, A Catalaogue of the Gandhara Sculpture in the British Museum, in Journal of the American Oriental Soceity 119.2 (1999):

Selected Papers and Panels

9-11 May 1999 -- "The Tilia Tepe Token and the Walking Buddha." Gandharan Buddhism Conference at the University of Toronto- McMaster University.
11-14 March 1999 -- Organized a panel for the Association of Asian Studies in Boston entitled "Doctrine and Representation in Buddhism and Buddhist Art, South and Southeast Asia." Presented a paper entitled "Soteriological Androgyny: The Gupta-Period Sarnath Buddha Image and Buddhist Doctrine."
11-13 February 1999 -- Organized a Panel for the College Art Association in Los Angeles entitled "Occidentalisms: Imaginative Geographies of the West as Seen in the Art of South Asia."
26-29 March 1998 -- "The Significance of Place in Southeast Asian Art History." Association of Asian Studies, Washginton DC.
30 October - 1 November 1998 -- "The Feminized Sarnath Buddha Image." American Committee fro South Asian Art, Charleston, SC.
22 October 1997 -- "The Nature of the Bodily Relics of the Buddha: The Gandharan Evidence." McMaster University, Ontario Canada
13-16 March 1997 -- Organized a panel of the annual Association of Asian Studies in Chicago entitled "Creating Sacred Pilgrimage in Asia Through Literature and Art." Presented a paper entitled "Buddhist Pilgrimage in Ancient India: Myth or Fact."
25-27 October 1996 -- "Relationships among Images of Avalokitesvara in Mainland Southeast Asia and South India." Symposium at the University of Texas, Austin.
10-14 April 1996 -- "The Relations between Pyu and Mon Art in Early Southeast Asia." Association for Asian Studies meeting in Washington, D.C.
6-9 April 1995 -- "Images of the Emaciated Buddha: Asceticism, Health, and the Buddha's Body." Association for Asian Studies meeting in Washington, D.C.
19-22 November 1994 -- "The Buddha's Sex in Image and Imagination." American Academy of Religion meeting in Chicago.
25 - 28 March 1993 -- Organized a panel of the annual Association for Asian Studies in Los Angeles entitled "Monks and Images: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Miraculous Images and the Monastic Community." Presented a paper entitled "Expected Miracles: Monks, Images, and the Miraculous at Sukhothai."
2 - 5 April 1992 -- "A Taste for Pig's Heads: The Human Personality of Buddha Images." Association for Asian Studies meeting in Washington, D.C.
19 - 21 April 1991 -- "Colonialism, Coomaraswamy, and Spirituality: the Gupta-period Buddha Image." Symposium of the American Committee of South Asian Art, Washington, D.C.
11 - 14 April 1991 -- Organized a panel of the annual Association for Asian Studies in New Orleans entitled "Miraculous Images: the Power of the Sacred in Asian Traditions." Presented a paper entitled "Xuanzang's Records of Miraculous Images."
12 April 1991 -- "Religion and Worldly Power: Visions of their Interwoveness in South Asian Art." Conflict and Religion Conference, UCLA.
5-8 April 1990 -- Organized and chaired a panel of the annual Association of Asian Studies in Chicago entitled "The Short Chronology at Ajanta and Its Implications for Indian Art and History."
15-17 February 1990 -- "The Nature of the Indian 'Influence' on the Dvaravati Wheels of the Law." College Art Association, New York.
13-14 January 1990 -- Invited presenter in NEH seminar "Buddhist Jataka Tales and their Interpretation in Southeast Asia," Arizona State University, Tempe.
10-14 July 1988 -- "A Taste for Luxury: Artistic Interchange Between the Indian and Roman Worlds." Symposium on the Art and History of South and Southeast Asia: The Last Age of Discovery, University of Colorado, Boulder.
27-29 May 1988 -- "Rules for Change in the Transfer of Indian Art to Southeast Asia." Symposium on Ancient Indonesian Sculpture, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
29 April-1 May 1988 -- "Indian Art Transformed: the Earliest Southeast Asian Sculptural Styles." Symposium of the American Committee of South Asian Art, Richmond, Virginia.
4 October 1987 -- Organized (with Christopher Chapple) a one day conference, "The Mahabharata: Interpretation and Performance," held at UCLA. South Asian Seminar of Southern California.
23-29 August 1987 -- "Indian Art Transformed: the Earliest Indian Artistic Influences in Southeast Asia." VIIth World Sanskrit Conference, Leiden, the Netherlands.
5 May 1987 -- "The Political and Economic Importance of the Buddha Image in Thailand." The Conference on U.S.-ASEAN Relations, California State University, Long Beach, California.
10-12 April 1987 -- Organized a panel for the annual Association for Asian Studies in Boston entitled "Was the Gupta Period a Classical Age?". Presented a paper entitled "Gupta Art as Classical: Possible Paradigms for Indian Art History."
25 September 1986 -- "A God on Earth: The Walking Buddha in Thailand." (This is the second part of the paper presented Oct. 1985 in Kansas City.) Southeast Asian Art Symposium: Arts in Context, University of Colorado, Boulder.
4-6 October 1985 -- "The Walking Buddha in the Art of India." Symposium of the American Committee of South Asian Art, Kansas City, Missouri.
15 December 1984 -- "Sakyamuni Buddha in Southeast Asian Art: The Enigma of its Origins, Sources, and Developments." Symposium in conjunction with the exhibition "Light of Asia," the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York.
23 -25 March 1984 -- "Ganesa in Southeast Asian Art." Association for Asian Studies meeting in Washington, D.C.
5-8 May 1983 -- "Planned Inconsistencies in Dvaravati Cakra Designs." Symposium of the American Committee for South Asian Art, Denver.
25-27 March 1983 -- Organized a panel for annual Association for Asian Studies meeting in San Francisco entitled "Extensions of Indian Art and Thought: methods and models of their movement in Asia." Presented a paper at this meeting: "'Rules' for Change in the Transfer of Indian Art to Southeast Asia."
1 May 1982 -- Organized a one-day symposium, "Shiva, Ascetic and Lover" (in connection with the exhibition "Manifestations of Shiva," symposium held at Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena.)
7 May 1981 -- "The Miracles of Sravasti in Dvaravati Art." Symposium of the American Committee for South Asian Art, Minneapolis , Minnesota.
14 November 1981 -- "A Dharmacakrastambha Socle in the Bangkok National Museum: Its Use and Meaning." Meeting of the Art Historians of Southern California, California State University, Northridge.

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