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Faculty Bio

Kevin Gray Carr, Assistant Professor, History of Art

RESEARCH INTERESTS

    Medieval Japanese art history, ritual and social context of religious icons, conceptions of history and cartography in Japan

EDUCATION

  • PhD, Art and Archeology, Princeton University, 2004
  • MA, Art and Archeology, Princeton University, 1999
  • AB, Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst College, 1996

SELECT PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

  • "Vernacular Developments in Painting and Sculpture," from Morse, Samuel, Thomas Rimer, and Gene Phillips, eds. Arts of Japan: Early Japan, Cambridge UP / University of Hawai`i, forthcoming.
  • "Mappô and Conceptions of the World in Medieval Japan," Association of Asian Studies annual meeting, March 3, 2006.
  • "Living Reliquaries: Shotoku Art and Relic Cults in Medieval Japan," Lecture for Northeast East Asian Art History Seminar, Harvard Univesity, April 24, 2004.
  • "Envisioning the Prince: The Life of Images in the Shotoku Cult," Lecture for Columbia University Keene Center, March 12, 2004.

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