ARTstor Digital Library
Alka Patel: South Asian and Cuban Art and Architecture
Overview
ARTstor is collaborating with Alka Patel and the University of California, Irvine to contribute approximately 15,000 images of works of Islamic and Latin American art and architecture to the Digital Library. The contribution will comprise three collections documenting art and architecture in three regions: South Asia, the Middle East, and Cuba.
Alka Patel is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches courses in South Asian and Islamic art and architecture. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University (2000) and her B.A. in Art History and Spanish Literature from Mount Holyoke College. Patel has edited several volumes, written numerous articles, and authored Building Communities in Gujarat: Architecture and Society during the Twelfth through Fourteenth Centuries (E. J. Brill, 2004). Her forthcoming projects include a monograph (The Ghurid Architecture of South Asia and Historiography at the Ends of the Islamic World), and an edited volume (The History and Historiography of Reuse in South Asia).
Collection information
| Total size of collection* | 15,000 |
|---|---|
| Percentage of completion | 70% |
| Search terms | alkapatel |
| Collection URL | http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/patel |
* Image totals should be regarded as an approximation until a given collection is 100% complete. Users should also bear in mind that the number of images available to them may vary from country to country, reflecting ARTstor’s approach to addressing an international copyright landscape that itself varies from country to country.
Last updated: June 25, 2012
Image Credits
Badshahi Darwaza (view of façade, doorway), Congregational Mosque Complex, late 16th century. Fatehpur Sikri, Rajasthan, India. Photographed by Alka Patel. © 2008 Alka Patel
