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The Textile Museum Journal, Vol. 44

Table of Contents

Toward a Grammar of Textiles: A Reconsideration of Medieval Textile Aesthetics and the Impact of Modern Collecting, Arielle Winnik

Nomad Textile Bags from Central Asia in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Geographic Distribution, Decoration, Semantics, Irina Bogoslovskaya

Through the Renaissance Frame: Carpets and the Beginnings of ‘Islamic Art’ in Nineteenth-Century Vienna and Berlin, Denise-Marie Teece

Pope Innocent VIII's Mamluk Carpets from Cairo in Context: Their Manufacture and Acquisition, Rosamond E. Mack

Rethinking Mamluk Carpet Origins, Gerald Pollio

 
Book Reviews
Tentage at the Calico Museum and its Patterns, by Peter Alford Andrews and Mugul Andrews, Mattiebelle Gittinger
Imprints of Culture, by Eiluned Edwards, Sarah Fee
Pattern and Loom, by John Becker, Ruth Barnes
Textiles of the Banjara, by Charllotte Kwon and Tim McLaughlin, Cristin McKnight Sethi

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ed. Finbarr B. Flood and Gülru Necipoğlu, A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture

The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected aspects of the field.

• This two-volume Companion showcases more than 50  specially commissioned essays and an introduction that survey Islamic art and architecture in all its traditional grandeur
• Essays are organized according to a new chronological-geographical paradigm that remaps the unprecedented expansion of the field and reflects the nuances of major artistic and political developments during the 1400-year span
• The Companion represents recent developments in the field, and encourages future horizons by commissioning innovative essays that provide fresh perspectives on canonical subjects, such as early Islamic art, sacred spaces, palaces, urbanism, ornament, arts of the book, and the portable arts while introducing others that have been previously neglected, including unexplored geographies and periods, transregional connectivities, talismans and magic, consumption and networks of portability, museums and collecting, and contemporary art worlds; the essays entail strong comparative and historiographic dimensions 
• The volumes are accompanied by a map, and each subsection is preceded by a brief outline of the main cultural and historical developments during the period in question
• The volumes include periods and regions typically excluded from survey books including modern and contemporary art-architecture; China, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sicily, the New World (Americas)

ISBN: 978-1-119-06866-2
1448 pages
August 2017, Wiley-Blackwell

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Lecturer in Islamic Arts, Residential College Arts and Ideas Program, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor

The Residential College Arts and Ideas in the Humanities major program, http://www.rc.lsa.umich.edu/, is seeking to hire a full time Lecturer I to teach courses starting in the Fall 2018 semester. …

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Adila Laïdi-Hanieh, Fahrelnissa Zeid: Painter of Inner Worlds​

Adila Laïdi-Hanieh, Fahrelnissa Zeid: Painter of Inner Worlds

The story of Fahrelnissa Zeid’s (1901–91) life is truly like no other. A Turkish noblewoman by birth and Iraqi princess by marriage, she was the first female artist to have a solo exhibition at London’s prestigious Institute of Contemporary Arts. Friend and relative of kings, queens, and statesmen, and busy wife of an ambassador, she was also a leading figure of Turkish modernism in the 1940s and a prominent member of the avant-garde in postwar Paris, praised by fellow artists and critics alike. Despite her privileged background, she fought personal tragedy, psychological turmoil, and social and artistic prejudice to chart a unique and innovative path all of her own. She became celebrated in her lifetime for her monumental and dynamic abstract compositions that engulf the viewer in fields of colour, light, and energetic movement, as well as for her later expressionistic portraits of family and close friends. These works reflect her conception of art as a ceaseless forward quest, driven by a spiritual need to produce painterly renditions of cosmic journeys and inner psychic universes.

Coinciding with a retrospective exhibition at Tate Modern, this book is written by a former student of the artist and based on unprecedented access to her private papers and personal archive. It provides a revisionist and definitive account of both her extraordinary life and the constant innovation and reinvention that characterized her career right up until her final decades working and teaching in Jordan. It foregrounds the importance of her extensive knowledge of European culture and her shifting mental state on her artistic vision, and challenges orientalist interpretations of her art. In doing so, it redefines Fahrelnissa Zeid for the contemporary reader as one of the most important modernists of the twentieth century.

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Call for Papers

Dots, Marginalia and Peritexts in Middle Eastern Manuscripts Workshop

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey

Conveners: Sabine Schmidtke and George A. Kiraz (IAS) Manuscripts often contain far more material than the words that form their primary texts: dots and various other symbols that mark vowels (in…

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Art, Materiality and Representation: Beauty and the Beast: photography, the body and sexual discourse in the Middle East and Central Eurasia

British Museum/SOAS, London

CALL FOR PAPER AND ARTWORK PROPOSALS Panel: Beauty and the Beast: photography, body and sexual discourse in the Middle East and Central Eurasia Art, Materiality and Representation, The Clore Centre,…

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Arab Studies Journal, Special Issue: Visualizing Change: Graphic Arts and Literature in the Contemporary Arab World

International

This special issue focuses on the rise of graphic literature and arts in the Arab world as a means of expression, representation, and political resistance against ideological hegemony. We are interested…

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Associate Curator of Public Programs, Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture and Design

Honolulu, Hawaii

Associate Curator of Public Programs Shangri La is a museum for learning about the global culture of Islamic art and design through innovative exhibitions, guided tours, public programs, and digital…

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Assistant Professor in Art and Material Culture of the Islamic World

University of California, Riverside

Starting Date: July 1, 2018 Salary: Commensurate with education and experience Application Procedure: The Department of the History of Art at the University of California, Riverside invites…

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Post-Graduate Fellow, Art of the Islamic Worlds, MFAH

Houston, Texas

Post-Graduate Fellow, Art of the Islamic Worlds, September 2017 to July 2018.Responsibilities:Provides curatorial assistance to Curator, Art of the Islamic WorldsCollection management: on-going collection…

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International Congress on Medieval Studies: Enchanted Environs: Architecture, Automata, and the Art of Mechanical Performance

Kalamazoo, Michigan

Organized by Zachary Stewart (Texas A&M University) and Amy Gillette (The Barnes Foundation). Medieval spaces were often sites of spectacular performances animated by various kinds of mechanical installations—the…

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Curator - Islamic Art & Culture, Royal Ontario Museum

Toronto, ON

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is Canada’s celebrated international museum and houses important collections in Art, Cultures and Nature (www.rom.on.ca). The ROM is the largest Museum in Canada, attracting…

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