A compelling storyteller, art historian, cultural anthropologist, photographer and author, Huyler’s inspiring account of his life combines wit, insight, and candor.
Travelling the length and breadth of India, over more than 50 years, for an average of four months each year, he has documented the profound meanings and significance of rural India’s sacred art and crafts. Having learned to feel the pulse of the people, he has himself been accepted by a remarkable range of individuals from maharajah to musician, Brahmin to Dalit, and politician to potter.
He has been the Consultant and Guest Curator for more than twenty-five major museum exhibitions of Indian art for Indian as well as international arts museums and other institutions, such as the American Museum of Natural History, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Natural Science, and the Mingei International Museum.
Huyler is also a leading photographer of India. His extensive image archive has resulted in solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Smithsonian, the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), and the Kodak Center for Creative Imaging.
– Daughters of India: Art and Identity,
– Gifts of Earth: Terracottas and Clay Sculptures of India,
– Painted Prayers: Women’s Art in Village India,
– Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion,
– Sonabai: Another Way of Seeing, and
– Village India.
His latest book, Transformed by India: A Life** (Pippa Rann Books & Media, U.K. www.pipparannbooks.com) evokes an India rarely seen by outsiders – people, places, and customs which are, in fact, today, not known even by many Indians.
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** Distributed in Canada and the USA by Trafalgar Square Publishing/ Independent Publishers Group, USA;
in the UK/ Europe by Gardners;
and in India & 16 other Asian countries by Penguin Random House