Pramod Chandra (November 20, 1930 – February 19, 2016) was an Indian-born American art historian, curator and the George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Harvard University from 1980 until 2004.[1][2] In 1985, Chandra curated the exhibition The Sculpture of India: 3000BC-1300AD at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.[3][4]
Biography
editChandra was born in Varanasi, India, and attended Elphinstone College in Mumbai. His father was the museum curator and Indologist, Moti Chandra.[2] After Elphinstone, Chandra obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He then returned to India and joined the Department of Art and Archaeology at the Prince of Wales Museum (now Chattrapathi Shivaji Vastu Sanghralaya) and secured a PhD from the University of Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1964. Chandra then moved to the United States to join University of Chicago, where he became a professor in 1971. He remained there until 1980, when he was appointed the George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Harvard University. He retired from the position in 2004.[5][2]
Bibliography
edit- Chandra, Pramod (1983). On the Study of Indian Art. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674732377.[6]
- Chandra, Pramod (1999). The Sculpture of India: 3000BC-1300AD. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674795907.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Pramod Chandra". haa.fas.harvard.edu.
- ^ a b c "Pramod Chandra, 85". March 6, 2019.
- ^ "The Sculpture of India: 3000 B.C.-1300 A.D." www.nga.gov.
- ^ "Hyatt Hotels' executive chairman Tom Pritzker on his forty years of travelling through India". The Economic Times. February 14, 2014.
- ^ Shackle, C. (June 14, 1985). "Pramod Chandra: On the study of Indian art. (The Polsky Lectures in Indian and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology.) [v], 134 pp., front., 11 plates Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, (for the Asia Society), 1983, £11". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 48 (2): 428. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00034418. S2CID 162101594 – via Cambridge Core.
- ^ "On the Study of Indian Art — Pramod Chandra".
- ^ "The Sculpture of India, 3000 B.C.–A.D. 1300 — Pramod Chandra".