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Denise Patry Leidy Yale University Art Gallery Department of Asian Art P.O. Box 208271 New Haven, CT 06520-8271 [email protected] Education Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 Ph.D., Art History, January 1986 Thesis: Northern Ch’i Buddhist Sculpture (550 – 577) M.A., Art History, October 1976 Thesis: A Seven Buddhas Bronze in the Nezu Museum Wheaton College, Norton MA 02766 B.A., Art History, June 1974 Honors thesis: The Water Cosmology in Indian Art: Its Meanings and Manifestations Research Collaborations and Other Scholarly Activities: Advisory committee, Digital Avalokiteshvara project, University of Virginia, 2010 - Advisory committee, digital reconstruction (and related exhibition) of the cave-temple complex at Xiangtangshan, Hebei Province, sponsored by the University of Chicago/Getty Grants Program, 2004-2010. Moderator/Panelist, “Art and Material Culture of the Northern Qi Period,” Freer Gallery of Art, June 3 – 5, 2011 Consultant, Silk Road Exhibition, American Museum of Natural History, 2007 – 2009 Consultant, Portland Art Museum (Chinese collection), July 2008 Participant, International Symposium in Honor of Dr. Walter M. Spink, Seoul National University, May 2008 Co-Chair, “But How Did They Use It? Defining Context in Buddhist Art,” College Art Association Annual Meeting, February 2003 Discussant, “Gendered Space in the Spiritual Cosmos: Female Deities in Buddhist Art,” Barnard Feminist Art History Conference, November 2001 Participant, International Seminar at Dunhuang, a joint project of the Silk Road Foundation and The University of Michigan, July 2001. 1 “Bezeklik and Esoteric Buddhism,” Paper delivered to The Association for Asian Studies, March 1999. Discussant, “The Luohans of Yixian,” The Association for Asian Studies, March 1998. Participant, Documentation of the history and culture of Turfan, a joint project of the Luce Foundation and Yale University, 1995-1998. Project director/curator, Mandala: The Architecture of Enlightenment, The Asia Society, NEA, 1997. Coordinator/ Editor, Tribute to Miyeko Murase, two volumes of Orientations with articles by former students on the occasion of her retirement, 1996-1997. Project director/curator, Buddha of the Future: An Early Maitreya from Thailand, The Asia Society, NEA 1993/1994. Participant/Discussant, Japanese Art in Its Monastic Context, McMaster University, Toronto, Canada, 1994. Project director/curator, The Cosmic Dancer: Shiva Nataraja, The Asia Society, NEA 1991-1992. “Beyond Likeness: Biography in Buddhist Portraiture,” Paper delivered to the International Association of Orientalists, Toronto, 1990. Cochair, Likeness and Lineage: Religious Portraiture in Asia, College Art Association Annual Meeting, 1990. Project director, self-guiding tours to the Asiatic Department, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, NEA 1989-1990. Curator, Faces of Asia: Portraits from the Permanent Collection, NEA Grant for the Utilization of Museum Resources, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1988-1989. NEA Fellow, Asiatic Department, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1983-1984. Project Coordinator: Interpretative Material for the Asian Collections, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, NEH 1981-1983. Columbia University Research Fellowship, 1981. Distinguished Service Award (Teaching), The Massachusetts College of Art, 1981. Professional Development Grant, The Massachusetts State College System, 1979-1980. 2 Columbia University Fellowship, 1975-1977. Books and Exhibition Catalogues: Global by Design: Chinese Ceramics from the R. Albuquerque Collection (with Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos), London: Jorge Welsh Publishing, 2016. How to Read Chinese Ceramics, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015. Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. (editor and co-author with Soyoung Lee) The Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World (with Mark Norrell and others), New York, Sterling Publishing, 2011. Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (with Donna Strahan), New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010. (2010 AAMC Awards for Excellence, Permanent Collection Catalogue/runner up) The Art of Buddhism: Its History and Meaning, Boston, Shambhala Publications, 2008. Mother-of-Pearl: A Tradition in Asian Lacquer, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006. Defining Yongle: Imperial Art in early Fifteenth Century China (with James C. Y. Watt), New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-700, edited by James C. Y. Watt, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. (catalogue entries) The Year One: Ancient Art East and West, edited by Elizabeth Milleker, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. (Catalogue entries and introduction for Asia) Mandala: The Architecture of Enlightenment (with Robert A.F. Thurman), New York: The Asia Society and Tibet House in collaboration with Shambhala Publications Inc., Boston, MA 1997. The Asia Society: The Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection: New York: The Asia Society and Abbeville Press, 1994. Buddha of the Future: An Early Thai Sculpture of Maitreya (with Nandana Chutiwongs), New York: The Asia Society Galleries, 1994. Treasures of Asian Art: Selections from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1993. 3 Faces of Asia: Portraits from the Permanent Collection (with Vishakha N. Desai) Boston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. Essays: “Interpretation and Innovation: Chinese Ceramics from the mid-6th to the early 8th century,” forthcoming, Orientations (2017). “Two Kangxi Period Textiles,” forthcoming, Arts of Asia (March/April 2017) “Discovery and Display: Case Studies from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces: Exhibiting Asian Religions in Museums, edited by Bruce M. Sullivan, London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic (2015): 94 – 106. “Cinnabar: The Chinese Art of Carved Lacquer,” Arts of Asia, vol. 45, no. 6 (November/December 2015): 76 – 87. Hong se diao qi ji xiang qing bai nian (translated by Wang Yiwen), Diancang (Art and Collection Monthly), vol. 276 (September 2015): 132 – 133. Please note a second version of this translated article was published in the Beijing edition of this Taiwanese journal in December 2015 as part of a series of essays on Chinese Lacquer. “Longquan: A Selection from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arts of Asia, vol. 42 no. 2 (March/April 2015): 118 – 128. “Extraordinary Things: The Florence and Herbert Irving Galleries for Chinese Decorative Arts,” Orientations, vol. 46, no. 2 (March 2015): 179 – 183. “A Buddhist Source for a Stoneware “Basket” Designed by Georges Hoentschel,” Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 49 (2014): 225 -228. Interstices of Compassion: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in China, Central Asia, and India, 5th – 10th centuries,” Cultural Crossings: China and Beyond in the Medieval Period, edited by Dorothy C. Wong and Gustav Heldt, New Delhi: Manohar (2014): 293 – 314. Buddha, Deva, or Devotee: A Sculpture from Xiangtangshan in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Orientations (October 2013): 66 – 69 (with Birgitta Augustin). (Translated into Chinese for Mei Cheng Zai Zu vol. 1 (2014): 64 – 69. Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom, Arts of Asia (September – October 2013): 95 – 105 (with Soyoung Lee). The “Kashmir Connection” and Chinese Buddhist Sculpture in the late 7th and early 8th Century,” Recent Studies in Chinese Buddhist Art (conference paper), Seoul: National Museum of Korea (2012): 31 – 48. 4 Links - Missing and Otherwise: Tillya Tepe and East Asia in Joan Aruz and Elisabetta Valtz eds., Hidden Treasures of Afghanistan, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012: 110 -119. Khubilai Khan and the Transformation of Chinese Art, Arts of Asia (September/ October 2010): 92 – 101. Lacquer: A Chinese Tradition under Mongol Rule, Orientations (September 2010): 76 – 80. “Buddhism and other ‘Foreign” Practices in Yuan China,” in James C. Y. Watt, et.al., The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2010): 86 – 127. Notes on a sculpture of Buddha Maitreya dated 486 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Oriental Art (Winter 2005/2006), 22-32. "Cave Sanctuaries," "Mandala," and “Mudra and Visual Imagery,” Encyclopedia of Buddhism, editor in chief, Robert E. Buswell, Jr, New York, Macmillan, 2003, 117 – 119, 508-512, 569-572. “A Northern Song Sculpture of the Monk Sengqie in The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Oriental Art (Spring 2003), 52 – 64. Please note: A Chinese translation of this article by Dr. Luo Shiping has been published. Entries for Buddhist Sculpture in The Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Paintings from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002, 68 - 73. “Bezeklik Temple 20 and Esoteric Buddhism, Silk Road Art and Archaeology, vol. 7 (2001) 201-222. “Prakon Chai and the Art of Southeast Asia in the 7th to the 9th Century” Arts of Asia (July/August 2000) 28-41. “Avalokiteshvara in Sixth-Century China,” The Flowering of A Foreign Faith edited by Janet Baker, Marg Publications, Mumbai, India (December 1998) 88-97. Chinese Decorative Arts: The Florence and Herbert Irving Galleries (with Anita Wai- fong Siu and James C. Y. Watt) New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Summer 1997. “Kashmir and China: A Note on Styles and Dates,” Orientations (February 1997) 66-70. 5 “Iconography and Provenance: Buddhist Art from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of Asian Art,”
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