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Boston College, Instructor, Islamic Art and Architecture (part-time)
Chestnut Hill, MA
The Art, Art History and Film Department at Boston College seeks to hire someone to teach two courses (one each semester) in Islamic art and architecture during the 2018-19 academic year. One class should…
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NYU Silsila, Faculty Fellow in Material Histories of Pre- and Early Modern Islam
New York
Silsila: Center for Material Histories in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University, invites applications for an appointment as a Faculty Fellow. The newly established center fosters interdisciplinary…
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Arts of the East: Highlights of Islamic Art from the Bruschettini Collection
From lavish textiles and intricately patterned carpets to colourful paintings, polychrome Iznik wares, and precious inlaid metalwork, Arts of the East: Highlights of Islamic Art from the Bruschettini Collection introduces readers to a selection from one of the world’s most important private collections of Islamic art.
Showcased in this catalogue are more than 40 works of art, dating from the 13th to 17th centuries, whose origins span the Islamic world from Spain to China and demonstrate remarkable vibrancy, variety, and technical perfection. The importance of cross-cultural relationships, the transformation of local styles, the fascination of luxury goods — the stories these objects carry awaken curiosity as well as awe.
Included in the catalogue are a foreword from Alessandro Bruschettini on the origin of the collection, essays from Curator Filiz Çakır Phillip on metalwork, ceramics, and textiles, plus contributions from internationally renowned scholar Claus-Peter Haase on the art of the book and well-known expert Michael Franses on the art of the carpet.
Fellowship
Bahari Visiting Fellowships in the Persian Arts of the Book
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
Applications are invited for Fellowships at the Bodleian Libraries of up to 6 months, for research into the Persian Arts of the Book. Research areas may include but are not limited to studies in Art History,…
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Jere Bacharach, Islamic History Through Coins, Second Edition
Jere L. Bacharach, Islamic History through Coins: An Analysis and Catalogue of Tenth-Century Ikhshidid Coinage", 2nd ed. (Cairo: AUC Press, 2015).
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Bernard O'Kane, The Monumental Inscriptions of Historic Cairo Database
The 3271 inscriptions from 509 monuments, 3395 bibliographic references from 63 bibliographic items, 12,107 photographs and 1425 drawings are now searchable in English and Arabic (the latter for the Arabic text field only).
Journal
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, Special Issue: Treasures of the Sea, Art Before Craft?
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, Vol. 5 (2017), Special Issue
TREASURES OF THE SEA: ART BEFORE CRAFT?
Edited by Avinoam Shalem
Avinoam Shalem: Introduction: Treasures of the Sea. Art Before Craft?
Barbara Baert: Marble and the Sea or Echo Emerging (A Ricercar)
Karen Pinto: In God’s Eyes: The Sacrality of the Seas in the Islamic Cartographic Vision
Matthew Elliott Gillman: A Tale of Two Ivories: Elephant and Walrus
Persis Berlekamp: Reflections on a Bridge and its Waters: Fleeting Access at Jazirat b. ‘Umar (Cizre) ‘Ain Diwar / (Im)mobile displacements
Hannah Baader: Livorno, Lapis Lazuli, Geology and the Treasures of the Sea in 1604604
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Call for Papers
Process in Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Islamic art history is an object-centered discipline. Its subject matter generally fits into a frame, vitrine, or photograph. But image boundaries are fuzzy. New materialism, thing theory, transregional…
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Walters Art Museum, Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow in Islamic Art
Baltimore
The Walters Art Museum seeks a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Islamic art, to be fully integrated into the daily working environment of the Curatorial staff and work closely with the Curator of Islamic…
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Jay Bonner, Islamic Geometric Patterns
The main focus of this unique book is an in-depth examination of the polygonal technique; the primary method used by master artists of the past in creating Islamic geometric patterns. The author details the design methodology responsible for this all-but-lost art form and presents evidence for its use from the historical record, both of which are vital contributions to the understanding of this ornamental tradition.
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Call for Papers
Art and Law: Objects and Spaces as Legal Actors
International
Art and Law: Objects and Spaces as Legal Actors Art history has long investigated the role of the law, from issues of visual evidence and legal aesthetics to ideas of artistic originality and authorship.…
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Edited Volume: Illuminating Metalwork: Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts
International
Historians of Western medieval, Byzantine, and Islamic art are warmly invited to propose contributions to an edited volume on the theme of depictions of precious metalwork in manuscript painting: Volume…
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