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Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art

Iranian Art from the Sasanians to the Islamic RepublicEssays in Honour of Linda Komaroff

Edited by Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom and Sandra Williams

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Introduces Iranian art from classical to contemporary media, showing how art can be a source for history and politics
  • Takes a broad view of the Persianate world
  • Opens a traditional field in new directions
  • Presents a combination of senior scholars and younger voices, and includes perspectives from Asia, Europe and the USA
  • Combines views from the academy, the museum and the laboratory, ranging from the practical to the theoretical

Linda Komaroff, long-time curator of the Art of the Middle East at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), has pioneered in the study and exhibition of Islamic art to include contemporary works. Her interests have long focused on the arts of Iran. With this volume her friends and colleagues celebrate her broad scope with essays exploring many new areas.

These 13 essays examine different media, including architecture, manuscripts, portable arts and textiles, as well as the contemporary arts of painting, photography, printmaking and video, from the early Islamic period to the present. In addition to traditional approaches to art-historical scholarship, such as textual analysis, connoisseurship, design, technical and material analysis, and archaeology, the contributors take on such newer themes as gift giving, the diaspora of Iranian art, political art, the relationship of the present to the past or vice versa, and the connections between Iranian art and the arts of the West. Some essays also deal with music and dance.

Reviews

"'his volume’s rich harvest of papers faithfully mirrors the remarkably diverse range of interests from Iberia to Japan which has marked Linda Komaroff’s distinguished career both as curator and as research scholar. We move from Mongol art to metalwork and music, from ceramics and carpets to book painting, gift-giving and modern Persian art: infinite riches in a little room.'
Table of contents

List of Figures The Contributors Series Editor’s ForewordAcknowledgements

INTRODUCTION: Celebrating the Career, Writings and Exhibitions of Linda Komaroff CHAPTER 1 A Mongol Historian Looks at Art: Abu’l Qasim Kashani’s Description of Sultaniyya Sheila Blair and Wheeler M. ThackstonCHAPTER 2 From Memory to Drawing: The Evolution of Islamic DesignJonathan M. BloomCHAPTER 3 A Reflection on Armour of Then and Now Filiz Çakır Phillip CHAPTER 4 Allusive Expressions: Siah Armajani’s Persian-period Collages (1957–1964)Maryam EkhtiarCHAPTER 5 Ceramic Decals on Minaʾi Wares John HirxCHAPTER 6 An Overview of Islamic Artefacts Brought to Pre-Modern Japan: Glass, Ceramics, Textiles, Metalwork and Calligraphy Tomoko MasuyaCHAPTER 7 The Baysunghur Kutubkhana and Emulation in the Arts of the Book Bernard O’KaneCHAPTER 8 Shahpour PouyanVenetia PorterCHAPTER 9 Musical Life in Seventeenth-Century Isfahan Amir Hosein Pourjavady and Shadi Shafiei JavadiCHAPTER 10 Gift-giving between Iran and Iberia from Timur to Tahmasp Marianna Shreve SimpsonCHAPTER 11 A Speculation on the Design of the Ardabil Carpets Tim StanleyCHAPTER 12 Minaʾi from Fustat: An Iranian Spoke in a Fatimid Ceramic Wheel Oliver WatsonCHAPTER 13 A Queer Palimpsest: Historical Layers in Salman Toor’s The Bar on East 13th Street Sandra S. Williams

Appendix: Linda Komaroff: Selected Bibliography Inde

About the contributors

Sheila S. Blair

Sheila S. Blair is the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art and the Boston College and Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Jonathan M. Bloom

Jonathan M. Bloom is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of fifteen books and hundreds of articles on all aspects of Islamic art and architecture, including the art of the Fatimid dynasty, and the history of paper. He and his wife and colleague Sheila Blair edited the prize-winning 3-volume Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture (2009) and organize the Hamad bin Khalifa Biennial Symposia on Islamic Art and Culture.

Sandra Williams

Sandra Williams, is Assistant Curator, Art of the Middle East, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and specializes in the arts of the Persianate world.

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