Jerome Feldman is professor of the history of art at
Hawaii Pacific University
Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) is a private university in downtown Honolulu, Makapuʻu and Kāneʻohe, Hawaii. HPU is the largest private university in the central Pacific, most noted for its diverse student body of nearly 5,000 students, r ...
where he specializes in the art of tribal
Southeast Asia
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and the
Pacific Islands
Collectively called the Pacific Islands, the islands in the Pacific Ocean are further categorized into three major island groups: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Depending on the context, the term ''Pacific Islands'' may refer to one of ...
. He was
Slade Professor of Fine Art
The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the oldest professorship of art and art history at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and University College, London.
History
The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collect ...
at the
University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
for 2004–05.
Selected publications
* ''The Eloquent Dead: Ancestral Sculpture of Indonesia and Southeast Asia''. 1985. (Edited)
* ''The Art of Micronesia: The University of Hawaii Art Gallery''. University of Hawaii, 1986.
* ''Nias Tribal Treasures: Cosmic Reflections in Stone, Wood, and Gold''. Delf, 1990.
* ''Arc of the Ancestors: Indonesian Art from the Jerome L. Joss Collection at UCLA''. Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.
* ''Mentawai Art''. Archipelago Press, 1999. (joint)
References
External links
Jerome Feldman
Slade Professors of Fine Art (University of Cambridge)
Hawaii Pacific University people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American art historians
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