Mus, Paul

Date born:  1902

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Date died:  1969

Place died:  Murs, Provence, France

Art historian of Buddhism in India and southeast Asia.  Employed sociological method to the topics of colonization of art, especially in Viet Nam.  Director of the Ecole Nationale de la France d'Outre-Mer.  Beginning in 1946 he was appointed to the College de France and later taught at Yale University.

Home Country:  France

Sources: The Dictionary of Art 22: 353.

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