This evening, the UBC Museum of Anthropology presents the second of three talks in the Mud Matters series:
Sculpted and Adorned: Mud Architecture in India
Art historian, curator, anthropologist, photographer, and author Dr. Stephen Huyler shares images and insights gained through 37 years of travel documenting folk art and aesthetics in rural India.
Tuesday, January 29, 7:00- 9:00 pm
UBC Library has several books by Dr. Stephen Huyler, including:
- Meeting God : elements of Hindu devotion
- Gifts of earth : terracottas & clay sculptures of India
- Painted prayers : women’s art in village India
If mud architecture intrigues you, then here are a few books to get you started:
- Down to earth : mud architecture : an old idea, a new future / based on an exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, conceived and directed by Jean Dethier.
- Mud architecture of the Indian desert / Kulbhushan Jain, Minakshi Jain.
- The valley of mud brick architecture : Shibām, Tarīm & Wādī Ḥaḍramūt : ancient to contemporary design