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Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890: Intercultural Engagements with Architecture and Craft in the Age of Travel and Reform, by Mercedes Volait
The commodification of Islamic antiques intensified in the late Ottoman Empire, an age of domestic reform and increased European interference following the Tanzimat (reorganisation) of 1839. Mercedes Volait examines the social life of typical objects moving from Cairo and Damascus to Paris, London, and beyond, uncovers the range of agencies and subjectivities involved in the trade of architectural salvage and historic handicraft, and traces impacts on private interiors, through creative reuse and Revival design, in Egypt, Europe and America. By devoting attention to both local and global engagements with Middle Eastern tangible heritage, the present volume invites to look anew at Orientalism in art and interior design, the canon of Islamic architecture and the translocation of historic works of art
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Interconnecting West and East Asia: A Transcultural Study of the Architecture of the Dead, SAH 2022, Abstracts DUE JUNE 2
The Society of Architectural Historians, 75th Annual International Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 27–May 1, 2022
In the wake of a growing interest in the global approach to architectural history, this session seeks to widen the scope of current research by conducting a transcultural and comparative analysis of the…
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Statement from the President of HIAA on Palestine
Originally released on May 27, 2021 In response to the May 2021 conflict, I stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and condemn the recent forced and illegal removal of Palestinians from their…
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17th Congress of Turkish Art- Warsaw 18-21 September 2023, Abstracts due 10th of November, 2021
Warsaw
17th International Congress of Turkish Art will be held between the 18th and the 21st September 2023 in Warsaw, at the Museum of the Palace of King Jan III in Wilanów and the University…
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Elisabeth Fraser, Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839, PSUP
Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839 is now out in paperback.
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The CARMEN Visual and Material Cultures
ARC Humanities Press
This series provides a platform for interdisciplinary medieval scholarship centred on visual and material cultures, through which it seeks to gain new perspectives and bring greater depth to existing historical…
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Pre-Modern “Pop Cultures”? Images and Objects Around the Mediterranean (c. 350–1918), Call for papers, Eikón Imago 2022, DEADLINE 30/6/2021
Eikón Imago
“We may not be able to define it, but we know it when we see it”: this is the slightly ironic definition Holt Parker gives us for “popular culture” (Parker 2011: 147). But who is able to define…
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HIAA Summer Newsletter--Please share recent publications, exhibitions, new positions, and honors by May 31, 2021
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Following the successful launch of our newsletter (available in the Member News page of the website), the HIAA board is now gathering information to compile in the summer edition (to be…
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HIAA Majlis at CAA 2022--Proposals due May 31, 2021
Chicago
The HIAA Majlis, held periodically in conjunction with the conference of the College Art Association (CAA), offers an opportunity for junior scholars in Islamic art to learn about their colleagues'…
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HIAA Summer Newsletter--Please share recent publications, exhibitions, new positions, and honors by May 31, 2021
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Following the successful launch of our newsletter (available in the Member News page of the website), the HIAA board is now gathering information to compile in the summer edition (to be…
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The Queen of Sheba's Gift: A History of the True Balsam of Matarea, by Marcus Milwright
The death of the last balsam tree in the plantation of Matarea in 1615 marks the end of practice of specialised cultivation that can be traced back two millennia. This interdisciplinary book uses written sources, visual data, and archaeological material to reconstruct the fascinating history of the balsam tree from Jericho and En-Gedi to Egypt, while also establishing links with resin-producing trees from the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. Chapters address the symbolic associations of balsam and the site of Matarea, the distribution of products from the tree through trade and diplomacy, and the applications of these products in medicine, ritual, and the domestic environment. These chapters allow for an exploration of the complex socio-cultural factors that contributed to the sense of value accorded to rare commodities.
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The Mobility of People and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean The Art of Travel, Edited by Elisabeth A. Fraser
For centuries artists, diplomats, and merchants served as cultural intermediaries in the Mediterranean. Stationed in port cities and other entrepôts of the Mediterranean, these go-betweens forged intercultural connections even as they negotiated and sometimes promoted cultural misunderstandings. They also moved objects of all kinds across time and space. This volume considers how the mobility of art and material culture is intertwined with greater Mediterranean networks from 1580 to 1880. Contributors see the movement of people and objects as transformational, emphasizing the trajectory of objects over single points of origin, multiplicity over unity, and mutability over stasis.
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Introduction: The Mobility of People and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Art of Travel - Elisabeth A. Fraser; 1 "From Scorching Spain and Freezing Muscovy": English Embroidery and Early Modern Mediterranean Trade - Sylvia Houghteling; 2 A Tale of Two Guns: Maritime Weaponry between France and Algiers - Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss; 3 Furnishing the Taste for Coffee in Early Modern France - Julia Landweber; 4 Substitutes and Souvenirs: Reliving Polish Victory in "Turkish" Tents - Ashley Dimmig; 5 The Ottoman Costume Album as Mobile Object and Agent of Contact - Elisabeth Fraser; 6 Entangled Styles: Mediterranean Migration and Dress in Pre-Modern Algiers - Leyla Belkaïd-Neri; 7 The Art of Wandering: Alexander Svoboda and Photography in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean - Michèle Hannoosh
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