Session 1: Indigenous Art and Outside Influences
Session Reading List:
Fiona Kerlogue, The Arts of Southeast Asia , New York , Thames & Hudson, 2004 (pp7-23)
Jerry Feldman is an expert in the art and architecture of tribal areas of Southeast Asia. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in Art History and is Professor of Art History at Hawai`i Pacific University. He has just returned from Cambridge University where he was the Slade Visiting Professor for 2004-2005. His publications include books on Southeast Asian arts: The Eloquent Dead (1985) and Arc of the Ancestors (1994) and important chapters in Nias Tribal Treasures (1990) and Islands and Ancestors (Metropolitan Museum of Art (1988) and numerous articles. He has lectured at Stanford University, Cambridge University, and many other museums and universities throughout the United States. He has done field studies in Nias island and has studied cultures in context in many of the islands of Indonesia. He is also the editor of the journal Pacific Arts. He approaches his topic from the standpoint of indigenous traditions and their interrelationships over a larger Pacific cultural context.