Art from Nepal and Tibet: Crossconnections

Speaker: Pratapaditya Pal

March 4, 1994 | 6.30 pm
Little Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai

Pratapaditya Pal is a Senior Curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and is also the general editor of MARG Magazine. A prolific author, he has written extensively on the arts of South and Southeast Asia and the Himalayas. He has also taught at many American universities.

Although the Himalayas are better known for their majestic and inaccessible mountain ranges they have been, in fact, a cradle of a great variety of human cultures. Perhaps the best known of these are of Nepal and Tibet. Both these cultural regions have produced a great deal of exciting art which has received the attention of scholars only in recent years but are not as well-known generally as they should be. The lecture will provide an introduction to the arts of Nepal and Tibet and discuss their inter-relationship and mutual dependence with the help of colour slides.