Full Description
The nine essays in this volume were first presented at the Historians of Islamic Art Association's (HIAA) seventh biennial symposium entitled 'Regime Change' and they highlight some of the regimes of thought and changing trends that structure the field of Islamic art history. The authors present new research exploring the intentions of patrons, the agency of craftsmen and their responses to previous artistic production, thereby allowing artefacts and monuments to be set within their historical, social and artistic contexts. In their contributions Annabel Teh Gallop, Dmitry Bondarev and Umberto Bongianino discuss significant changes to Qur'an production due to dynastic and political regime changes in Sumatra and the Malay peninsula, and in Borno and Morocco in Africa. Corinne Mu hlemann looks at changes in the role and status of designers and weavers making silk in Khurasan in the post-Mongol period. Lisa Golombek, Michael Chagnon, and Farshid Emami explore Safavid art and architecture, focusing on the material and sensorial qualities of a group of tiled arch panels with narrative scenes, a delicately painted vase and the clocks of the main square of seventeenth-century Isfahan. Regime change also comes about through technological shifts and in their essays Ulrich Marzolph and Yasemin Gencer ask how the rise of photography and new printing techniques shaped the production, exchange and transmission of images in Iran and Turkey.
Contents
1. ISLAMIC ART IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM: FROM REGIMES TO HORIZONS Christiane Gruber and Bihter Esener 6
2. MIGRATING MANUSCRIPT ART: THE 'SULAWESI DIASPORA GEOMETRIC' STYLE OF QUR'ANIC ILLUMINATION Annabel Teh Gall op 14
3. SHIFTING REGIMES, RESHAPING MANUSCRIPTS: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ANNOTATED QUR'ANS IN BORNO Dmitry Bondarev 32
4. THE RE-ENDOWMENT OF ALMOHAD QUR'ANS UNDER THE EARLY MARINIDS (CA. 1250-1300 CE) Umberto Bongianino 48
5. THE WEAVER'S SIGNATURE? THE DIVISION OF LABOUR IN THE PRODUCTION OF LAMPAS WOVEN SILKS Corinne Mu hlemann 64
6. POINTS OF VISION: RECEPTION OF A LATE SAFAVID TILED ARCADE Lisa Golombek 80
7. INTERPRETING A LATER SAFAVID VASE: BETWEEN MATERIAL, OBJECT AND IMAGE Michael Chagnon 96
8. SENSING TIME AND SOUND IN SAFAVID ISFAHAN: THE CLOCKS OF THE MAYDAN-I NAQSH-I JAHAN Farshid Emami 110
9. LITHOGRAPHY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE ART OF ILLUSTRATION IN IRAN Ulrich Marzolph 128
10. MUSTAFA KEMAL, PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGE IN 1920S TURKISH MEDIA Yasemin Gencer 144
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES 160
