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Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University Arts and Science
New York
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship at Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University. For more information, see the job announcement here.
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The 36th Annual Boston University Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture, Submissions Due: November 30, 2019 Symposium Date: March 28, 2020
Boston
Environment: Awareness, Exchange, and ImpactConversations about the environment are a prominent and contentious aspect of life in the 21st century, but the environment has always been an omnipresent…
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor with a research specialty in any area of Ancient or Medieval art
Utah
The Department of Art & Art History at the University of Utah invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor with a research specialty in any area of Ancient or Medieval art, broadly…
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Endowed Associate Professor in Contemporary Art,The School of Art, in the J. William Fulbright College of the University of Arkansas
Arkansas
The School of Art, in the J. William Fulbright College of the University of Arkansas, invites applications for an endowed associate professor in Contemporary Art, to start in August 2020. The newly-developed…
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the Art History of Africa, deadline October 13, 2019
SOAS, London
The role and its responsibilitiesThe School of Arts seeks to appoint a Lecturer (or Senior Lecturer) in the Art History of Africa in the Department of the History of Art & Archaeology, starting in around…
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Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary by Alex Dika Seggerman
Modernism on the Nile
Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary
Alex Dika Seggerman
Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman reveals how the visual arts were part of a multifaceted transnational modernism. While the work of diverse, major Egyptian artists during this era may have appeared to be secular, she argues, it reflected the subtle but essential inflection of Islam, as a faith, history, and lived experience, in the overarching development of Middle Eastern modernity.
Challenging typical views of modernism in art history as solely Euro-American, and expanding the conventional periodization of Islamic art history, Seggerman theorizes a “constellational modernism” for the emerging field of global modernism. Rather than seeing modernism in a generalized, hyperconnected network, she finds that art and artists circulated in distinct constellations that encompassed finite local and transnational relations. Such constellations, which could engage visual systems both along and beyond the Nile, from Los Angeles to Delhi, were materialized in visual culture that ranged from oil paintings and sculpture to photography and prints. Based on extensive research in Egypt, Europe, and the United States, this richly illustrated book poses a compelling argument for the importance of Muslim networks to global modernism.
“Crafting the concept of constellational to chart the evolution of modern art in Egypt, Seggerman reconciles the seemingly antagonistic notions of Islamic and modern in art history. Analyzing a selection of preeminent artists’ work, she boldly constructs a nuanced approach to interpreting not only modern Egyptian art but potentially all modern art movements in countries with a living Islamic heritage.”
—Nasser Rabbat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
296 pages, 24 color plates., 74 halftones $34.95 hardcover
Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
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Journey to the City A Companion to the Middle East Galleries at the Penn Museum, eds. Steve Tinney and Karen Sonik
The Penn Museum has a long and storied history of research and archaeological exploration in the ancient Middle East. This book highlights this rich depth of knowledge while also serving as a companion volume to the Museum's signature Middle East Galleries opening in April 2018. This edited volume includes chapters and integrated short, focused pieces from Museum curators and staff actively involved in the detailed planning of the new galleries. In addition to highlighting the most remarkable and interesting objects in the Museum's extraordinary Middle East collections, this volume illuminates the primary themes within these galleries (make, settle, connect, organize, and believe) and provides a larger context within which to understand them.
The ancient Middle East is home to the first urban settlements in human history, dating to the fourth millennium BCE; therefore, tracing this move toward city life figures prominently in the book. The topic of urbanization, how it came about and how these early steps still impact our daily lives, is explored from regional and localized perspectives, bringing us from Mesopotamia (Ur, Uruk, and Nippur) to Islamic and Persianate cites (Rayy and Isfahan) and, finally, connecting back to life in modern Philadelphia. Through examination of topics such as landscape, resources, trade, religious belief and burial practices, daily life, and nomads, this very important human journey is investigated both broadly and with specific case studies.
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Postdoctoral position in Islamic Art at the Institute of Art History, University of Vienna
University of Vienna
University Assistant (post doc)at the Department of Near Eastern Studiesto 31.01.2021.Reference number: 10016 At the University of Vienna (15 Faculties, 3 Centres, ca. 170 study programmes,…
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Interdisciplinary Fellowships, Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music is an interdisciplinary center where scholars and artists engage in academic and creative work across a variety of fields at the intersection of religion and the arts.…
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The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World (ed. Christiane Gruber)
The Image Debate is a collection of thirteen essays that examine the controversy surrounding the use of images in Islamic and other religious cultures and seek to redress some of the misunderstandings that have arisen.Visit site
Table of Contents: Stefano Carboni – Foreword Christiane Gruber – Idols and Figural Images in Islam: A Brief Dive into a Perennial Debate
Part 1: Pre-Modern Islam Mika Natif – ‘Painters Will Be Punished’: The Politics of Figural Representation Amongst the Umayyads Finbarr Barry Flood – Signs of Silence: Epigraphic Erasure and the Image of the Word Oya Pancaroğlu – Conditions of Love and Conventions of Representation in the Illustrated Manuscript of Varqa and Gulshah
Part 2: Beyond the Islamic world Alicia Walker – Iconomachy in Byzantium Steven Fine – The Image in Jewish Art Michael Shenkar – Religious Imagery and Image-Making in pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia Robert Decaroli – Conspicuous Absences: The Avoidance and Use of Images in Early South Asian Art
Part 3: Modern and Contemporary Islam Yousuf Saeed – The Figural Image in Islamic Devotional Art of the Indian Subcontinent James Bennett – The Shadow Puppet: A South-East Asian Islamic Aesthetic Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts – Enigma and Purpose: Visual Hagiographies of Urban Senegal Rose Issa – Figures of Protest in Contemporary Arab and Iranian Art Shiva Balaghi – Only for My Shadow: Figuration in Contemporary Iranian Art
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Asa Eger, ed. The Archaeology of the Medieval Islamic Frontiers: From the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea [University of Colorado Press, Louisville: 2019]
Table of Contents 1. A. Asa Eger (UNCG), “The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers – an Introduction” 3
Part I: Western Frontiers: The Maghrib and The Mediterranean Sea
2. Anthony J. Lauricella (U Chicago), “Ibadi Boundaries and Defense in the Jabal Nafusa (Libya)” 31
3. Renata Holod (U Penn) and Tarek Kahlaoui (Mediterranean School of Business), “Guarding a Well-Ordered Space on a Mediterranean Island” 47
4. Ian Randall (Brown), “Conceptualizing the Islamic-Byzantine Maritime Frontier.” 80
Part II: Southern Frontiers: Egypt and Nubia
5. Giovanni Ruffini (Fairfield), “Monetization across the Nubian Border: A Hypothetical Model” 105
6. Jana Eger (Mu, “ The Land of Tari' and Some New Thoughts about Its Location” 119
Part III: Eastern Frontiers: The Caucasus
7. Karim Alizadeh (Harvard): “Overlapping Social and Political Boundaries: Borders of the Sasanian Empire and the Muslim Caliphate in the Caucasus” 139
8. Tasha Vorderstrasse (U Chicago), “Buddhism on the Shores of the Black Sea: The North Caucasus Frontier between the Muslims, Byzantines and Khazars ” 168.
9. Kathryn Franklin, “Houses for Strangers and a Homeland on the Move: the Caravan- House and Political Economy in the Late Medieval Armenian Highlands (AD 1200- 1400)
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New version of the Islamic Painted Page Database
The University of Hamburg’s Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures and Islamic Painted Page are pleased to announce the launch of a new version of the Islamic Painted Page website to help users locate paintings, illuminations and bindings, and to signpost them onward to authoritative online and print publications.
As well as some refinements to the site, we are proud to report the database is now expanded to 42,000 references, of which 21,000 now include images. Altogether, the database now includes works from over 270 collections worldwide, and image facilities are now included for 50% of the content. Everything remains fully searchable by picture description as well as by place, date, accession number and other metadata.
Very grateful acknowledgement is made to the Smithsonian Freer Sackler Galleries; The Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Harvard Art Museums; Copenhagen David Collection; the Geneva Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, and Chester Beatty Library, for permission to include images from their collections on this latest version of the database. Together with previous permissions and Creative Commons policies, this enables the database to display images for works from twenty major collections so far.
The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures aims to enable the continued development of the Islamic Painted Page database, and the site is now hosted and supported by the University of Hamburg, although the database ownership and maintenance remain unchanged.
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