Rebecca M. Brown

South Asian Visual Culture and Politics

Teaching

Graduate Seminars

  • Politics and Visual Culture ~ syllabus
  • The Epistemology of Photography ~ syllabus
  • Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art ~ GW syllabus
  • Provincialising Europe

Advanced Undergraduate

  • The Politics of Display in South Asia ~ syllabus
  • Key Moments in East Asian Politics and Visual Culture since 1850 ~ syllabus
  • Murals, Monuments, and Museums ~ syllabus
  • The Harem and the Veil: Space and Gender in the Islamic World ~ syllabus
  • Gender in Asian and Islamic Art
  • Stories with Pictures: Narrative in Asian and Islamic Art
  • Critical Approaches to the Analysis of Art
  • Contemporary Asian Art and Architecture
  • Asian Art after 1945 ~ syllabus
  • Colonialism and Nationalism in India
  • Politics of the Middle East and South Asia
  • Cinema, History, and Politics

Introductory

  • Introduction to Art History (disciplinary and global survey)
  • Introduction to Asian Studies
  • Introduction to Asian Art
  • East Asian Art, Culture, and Politics ~ syllabus
  • South Asian Art, Culture, and Politics ~ syllabus
  • Indian and Southeast Asian Art
  • Indian Art in the Museum ~ syllabus
  • Arts of Japan
  • Arts of China
  • Islamic Art
  • Buddhist Art of Asia
  • Understanding Global Politics
  • Rock Paper Sword: Ancient and Medieval World Art
  • Art in Wales, 18th–21st c. (e-learning)

Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980

Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India

Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest

Contact

Teaching Professor
Johns Hopkins University
History of Art
3400 N. Charles St
Gilman 163
Baltimore MD 21218
tel. 410-516-0345
rmbrown@jhu.edu