Pattaratorn Chirapravati

  • Contact Information

  • Title: Associate Professor of Art History and Curatorial Studies; Program Director of Asian Studies
  • Office Location: Kadema Hall 186
  • Office Hours: Kadema 186, Monday and Wednesday, 1:30 - 2:30
    Benicia 1016, Monday 3:00 - 4:00
  • E-mail: pchirapravati@csus.edu
  • Office Phone: (916) 278-3880
  • Mailing Address: Sacramento State University 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6061
  • Asian Studies Office: Benicia Hall 1016
  • Asian Studies Phone: (916) 278-7373

Courses that I teach

  • Art 1A: Art in the Western World: From Stone Age to End of Middle Ages
  • Art 3A: Traditional Asian Art
  • Art 3B: Modern and Contemporary Asian Art
  • ART 113B: Asian Art and Mythology
  • Art 117A: Art of India and Southeast Asia
  • Art 117B: Art of China And Japan
  • ART 192B: Senior Seminar in Art History
  • ART 193: Art Gallery Management
  • Asian Studies 195: Internship: Asian Studies
  • Asian Studies 198: Asia in the World Today

Bio

  • Ph.D. Cornell University (Southeast Asian Art and Southeast Asian Studies), 1994.
  • M.A. Cornell University (Southeast Asian Art), 1991.
  • M.A. Ohio State University (Indian Art and Philosophy), 1984.
  • B.A. Silpakorn University, First Class Honor (Asian Art), 1981.

Selected Publications

BOOKS

  • Divination au royaume de Siam: Le corps, la guerre, le destin (Presses universitaries de France, 2011).
  • Votive Tablets in Thailand: Origin, Styles, and Uses (Oxford University Press, 1997).

ARTICLES

  • “Funeral Scenes in the Ramayana Mural Painting at the Emerald Buddha Temple,”Recent studies in Southeast Asian archaeology,ed.Marijke Klokke,Amsterdam University Press (2013).
  • “In Search of Maitreya:Early Images of Dvaravati Buddha at Si Thep,”Buddhist Narrative, ed. Peter Skilling and Justin McDaniel (2012).
  • “Cloth and Corps: Illustrations of the Pansukula Ceremony in Thai Manuscripts,”Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China,eds. Paul Williams and Patrice Ludwig, University of Cambridge (2012).
  • “Living the Siamese life: Culture, Religion, and Art,” Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam and Burma, 1775-1950, ed. Forrest McGill, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (2009).
  • “From Text to Image: Copying as Buddhist Practice in Late Fourteenth-Century Sukhothai,” Buddhist Manuscript Cultures, ed. Steve Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, and Claudia Brown, Routledge (2009).
  • “Buddhism and Thai Art,” in online Journal Buddhism Compass, April 2009.
  • “Illustrating the Lives of the Bodhisattva: Art of Wat Si Chum,” Past Lives of the Buddha: Wat Si Chum-Art, Architecture and Inscriptions, ed. Peter Skilling. (River Books, 2007).
  • “Original or Recycled? Jataka Reliefs at Wat Si Chum,” Buddhist Legacy in Mainland Southeast Asia. (The Sirindhorn Anthropology Center and Ecole Franaise dÕExtreme-Orient, 2006).
  • “Wat Ratchaburana: Deposits of History, Art, and Culture of the Early Ayutthaya period” in Kingdom of Siam: Art from Central Thailand: 1350-1800 CE, exhibition catalog,. (Snoeck Publishers, Buppha Press, Art Media Resources, Inc., and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2005).
  • “Sukhothai” and “Ayutthaya,” articles for Encyclopedia of Buddhism, edited by Robert Buswell (Thompson and Gale, 2004).
  • “Important Extant Temples and Sculptures in Thailand and Burma,” article in Encyclopedia of Monasticism. (Fitzroy, Dearborn, Michigan, 2000).
  • “Development of Buddhist Traditions in Peninsular Thailand: Study Based on Votive Tablets (Eighth to Thirteenth Centuries),” in Festschrift in honor of the seventieth birthday of Stanley O'Connor, ed. Nora Taylor. (Southeast Asia Program Publication, Cornell University, 2000).
  • “Votive Tablets and Amulets from Thailand,” Art From Thailand, special issue of Marg Magazine, ed. Robert L. Brown (1999).

Curatorial Projects

  • Co-curator, The Kingdom of Siam: The Arts of Central Thailand, 1350-1800 (The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2005 and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, 2005).
  • Co-curator, Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam and Burma 1775-1950 (The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2009).
  • Art Consultant and Catalogue contributor, The Lost Kingdoms of Early Southeast Asia: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture, 6th to 10th centuries (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Southeast Asian Department, 2011-2014).
  • The Spirit of Contemporary Asian Art (The University Library Gallery, 2003).
  • The Tradition Continues: Art from Thailand (The Witt Gallery, CSUS, 2005).
  • Transcendent Landscape by Shimo (The University Library Gallery Annex, CSUS, 2006).
  • The House of Spirits: Works of Emeritus Professor Leroy Keevaljian (The Witt Gallery, CSUS, 2007).
  • The Cycle of Life: Innocence (The Pence Gallery (Davis), 2007).
  • The Cycle of Life: Wisdom (The University Library Gallery Annex, CSUS, 2007).
  • The Cycle of Life: Awakening (The Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2008).
  • The Last Wedding, Part 1: In Progress, Art Installation by Marianne Ryan, (Robert Else Gallery, CSUS, 2010).
  • Merit Making For the Southeast Asian New Year: Offering of the Sand Stupas, (Robert Else Gallery, CSUS, 2012).

Department Links

Divination au royaume de Siam

Divination au royaume de Siam: Le corps, la guerre, le destin (The Thai Bodmer Divination Manuscript: War, Wealth and Destiny)

Making Merit for the Southeast Asian New Year: Offering of Sand Stupas

Making Merit for the Southeast Asian New Year: Offering of Sand Stupas
See the installation video created by Professor Jeffrey Dym: Asian Studies students and Professor Pat Chirapravati create sand stupas in the Else Gallery, April 2012.

Stupas at Bangkok Grand Palace

Stupas at the Bangkok Grand Palace